Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1995, 2:32 AM EDT for Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 24, 1995, 2:32 AM EDT (06:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 24, 1995, 3:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 118 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 617 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 240631 SVRCAE SCC085-240715- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 232 AM EDT MON APR 24 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SUMTER COUNTY A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS LIKELY SEVERE WAS IN THE FORT JACKSON AREA AT 230 AM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AND TOWARD SUMTER COUNTY. THE REMBERT AREA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE MOBILE HOMES. FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR. DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS STORM AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 24, 1:57 AM EDT, 35 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
155 AM EDT MON APR 24 1995
APRIL 24, 1995 TIMES EDT
TIME REPORT
154 AM EDT NICKEL SIZE HAIL 2 MILES WEST OF LEXINGTON
IN LEXINGTON COUNTY.The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 10:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 63 min |
| Apr 24, 12:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | McCormick | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 1:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Edgefield, Saluda | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Newberry | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 1:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 68 min |
| Apr 24, 1:49 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Lexington | 26 min |
| Apr 24, 2:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Richland | 40 min |
| Apr 24, 2:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 2:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 2:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee | 44 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.