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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Calhoun County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 12:11 PM EDT for Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 12:11 PM EDT (16:11 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Calhoun County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 279 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 191612
SVRCAE
SCC017-191645-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1211 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CALHOUN COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR ST MATTHEWS IN
CALHOUN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
 
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, 10:42 AM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1041 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

0950AM        2W IRMO                SC       TREES DOWN AT INTERSECTION
5/19/95       LEXINGTON                       OF HWYS 6 AND 107.

Local storm report, May 19, 10:49 AM EDT, 1 hour 22 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1048 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

1040AM        WOODROW                SC       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
5/19/95       LEE

Local storm report, May 19, 10:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1055 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

1022AM        ELGIN                  SC       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
5/19/95       KERSHAW

Local storm report, May 19, 11:06 AM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1104 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

1049AM        3SW REMBERT            SC       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
5/19/95       SUMTER                          HWY 261

1051AM        2S REMBERT             SC       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
5/19/95       SUMTER                          HWY 521 - POWER OUT IN REMB ERT

Special weather statement, May 19, 11:35 AM EDT, 36 minutes before

GAZ087-088-SCZ040-190535-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
1135 PM EDT THU MAY 18 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA
UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN EFFECT FOR JENKINS AND SCREVEN COUNTIES
OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

WEATHER RADAR AT 1125 AM EDT INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWEST TO JUST
NORTH OF THE AUGUSTA AREA AND CONTINUED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR
MILLEDGEVILLE GEORGIA. ELSEWHERE AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
BETWEEN DUBLIN AND SWAINSBORO GEORGIA.  MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO
THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

RESIDENTS OF JENKINS...SCREVEN AND ALLENDALE COUNTIES SHOULD BE
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

Special weather statement, May 19, 11:36 AM EDT, 35 minutes before

GAZ087-088-SCZ040-190535-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA...COR FOR DATE
1135 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA
UNTIL 2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IS IN EFFECT FOR JENKINS AND SCREVEN COUNTIES
OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

WEATHER RADAR AT 1125 AM EDT INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWEST TO JUST
NORTH OF THE AUGUSTA AREA AND CONTINUED SOUTHWEST TO NEAR
MILLEDGEVILLE GEORGIA. ELSEWHERE AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
BETWEEN DUBLIN AND SWAINSBORO GEORGIA.  MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS WAS TO
THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

RESIDENTS OF JENKINS...SCREVEN AND ALLENDALE COUNTIES SHOULD BE
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON.

AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM...TOWERING THUNDERHEADS...DARKENING
SKIES...LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR
THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

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, 10:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	48 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, 12:21 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.