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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 1:07 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 1:07 PM EDT (17:07 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 286 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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 191708
SVRCAE
GAC033-191800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
107 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  200 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BURKE COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF WAYNESBORO IN
BURKE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND MOVE
THROUGH WAYNESBORO AND GREENS CUT TOWARD SHELL BLUFF BETWEEN 110 AND 145
PM.
 
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.

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, 10:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 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, 2 hours 1 minute 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, 1 hour 32 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, 1 hour 31 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.

Local storm report, May 19, 12:22 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
1220 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

1130AM        GASTON                 SC       1.25 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       LEXINGTON

1147AM        HOPKINS                SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       RICHLAND

1200 PM       15NW ST MATHEWS        SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       CALHOUN                         INTENSE RAIN

1200 PM       2 S AIKEN              SC       .75 INCH HAIL U.S. 1
5/19/95       AIKEN

Local storm report, May 19, 1:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
105 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

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

1228PM        2 W ST. MATHEWS        SC       .75 INCH HAIL HWY 176
5/19/95       CALHOUN

1244PM        PINEWOOD               SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       SUMTER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie, Richmond	43 min
May 19, 2:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Richmond	44 min

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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.