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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Columbia, SC

May 15, 1995Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Kershaw County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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: 853 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1155 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 168 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 152027
SVRCAE
SCC055-152115-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
430 PM EDT MON MAY 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN KERSHAW COUNTY
 
AT 425 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
EASTERN LANCASTER COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTH SOUTHEAST
AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN KERSHAW COUNTY AT 440 PM.
THE BETHUNE AREA IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEhADLY 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.

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 47 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 46 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, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	48 min
May 15, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	50 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.