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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Lee County, Sumter County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 10:27 AM EDT for Lee County, Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 10:27 AM EDT (14:27 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 11:15 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lee County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 230 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: 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 191428
SVRCAE
SCC061-085-191515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1027 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...LEE COUNTY...NORTHERN SUMTER COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO LEE AND
NORTHERN SUMTER COUNTIES. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE TOWN OF
REMBERT IN SUMTER COUNTY BETWEEN 1030 AM AND 1100 AM. THIS STORM WILL
MOVE THROUGH BISHOPVILLE IN LEE COUNTY BETWEEN 1030 AND 1100 AM.
 
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.

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 19, 10:18 AM EDT, 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1020 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

745 AM        LESLEY                 SC       FUNNEL CLOUD
5/19/95       YORK

809 AM        CHESTER                SC       .5 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       CHESTER

840 AM        LANCASTER              SC       LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN
5/19/95       LANCASTER                       INTENSE RAIN

920 AM        2E OF PAGELAND         SC       LARGE TREE BRANCHES DOWN
5/19/95       CHESTERFIELD                    INTENSE RAIN

Local storm report, May 19, 10:22 AM EDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1025 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

935 AM        4NE SALUDA             SC       .75 INCH HAIL HWY 378 AND
5/19/95       SALUDA                          TREES DOWN

1005AM        PONTIAC                SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       RICHLAND                        SMALL TREE BRANCHES DOWN

1020 AM       SALUDA                 SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       SALUDA                          HIGH WINDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 8:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	63 min
May 19, 8:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	55 min
May 19, 9:35 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	40 min
May 19, 9:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	65 min
May 19, 9:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Saluda	65 min
May 19, 11:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	43 min
May 19, 11:36 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Lexington, Richland	54 min
May 19, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun	34 min
May 19, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon, Sumter	54 min
May 19, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	51 min
May 19, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	47 min
May 19, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	41 min
May 19, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	49 min
May 19, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	49 min
May 19, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Aiken	44 min
May 19, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Chesterfield	54 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.