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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Columbia, SC

May 15, 1995Lancaster County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:12 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1995, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Lancaster County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 626 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -147 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1134 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 152008
SVRCAE
SCC057-152100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
412 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY
 
RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM THAT WAS SEVERE MOVING SOUTHEASTWARD TOWARD
EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY. THE AREA BETWEEN LANCASTER AND TRADESVILLE 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.
 
AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS
STORM AND RELAY RVEPORTS 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, May 15, 10:43 AM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1042 AM EDT MON MAY 15 1995

TIME(EDT)   .....CITY LOCATION....    STATE....EVENT/REMARK....
            .....COUNTY LOCATION..

122 AM      THOMSON                   SC       SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN
5/14/95     ORANGEBURG                         ACROSS SC HWY SC-38-64
                                               NEAR NORWAY...HWY MAINT.

SJN

Local storm report, May 15, 10:44 AM EDT, 5 hours 28 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1044 AM EDT MON MAY 15 1995

TIME(EDT)   .....CITY LOCATION....    STATE....EVENT/REMARK....
            .....COUNTY LOCATION..

122 AM      NORWAY                    SC       SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN
5/14/95     ORANGEBURG                         ACROSS SC HWY SC-38-64
                                               NEAR NORWAY...HWY MAINT.

SJN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 15, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	50 min
May 15, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	45 min
May 15, 4:37 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Newberry	53 min
May 15, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Sumter	65 min
May 15, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	45 min
May 15, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington	34 min
May 15, 5:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Clarendon	61 min
May 15, 6:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	55 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.