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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Columbia, SC

April 24, 1995Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 24, 1995, 2:39 AM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 24, 1995, 2:39 AM EDT (06:39 UTC)
Expired: Apr 24, 1995, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Kershaw County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 169 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 240639
SVRCAE
SCC055-240715-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
239 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
 
   ...SOUTHERN KERSHAW COUNTY
 
A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS LIKELY SEVERE WAS NEAR THE SUMTER-KERSHAW
COUNTY LINE AT 235 AM. MOVEMENT WAS EAST NORTHEAST NEAR 40 MILES AN
HOUR. THE BOYKIN-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, 42 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, 2:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	43 min
Apr 24, 2:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Every 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.