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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Saluda County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 9:55 AM EDT for Saluda County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 9:55 AM EDT (13:55 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 11:00 AM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Saluda County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 119 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 191356
SVRCAE
SCC055-081-191500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
955 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...KERSHAW COUNTY...SALUDA COUNTY
 
AT 955 AM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
APPROACHING THE WESTERN SALUDA COUNTY LINE AND ALSO OVER WESTERN KERSHAW
COUNTY NEAR CAMDEN. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 45
MPH.
 
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.
 
SJN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 19, 8:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster63 min
May 19, 8:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield55 min
May 19, 9:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Richland40 min
May 19, 9:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw65 min
May 19, 10:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee, Sumter48 min
May 19, 11:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken43 min
May 19, 11:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington, Richland54 min
May 19, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun34 min
May 19, 12:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon, Sumter54 min
May 19, 12:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell51 min
May 19, 1:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Orangeburg47 min
May 19, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken41 min
May 19, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEClarendon49 min
May 19, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg49 min
May 19, 2:46 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEAiken44 min
May 19, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEChesterfield54 min

Nearby

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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.