Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Calhoun County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 1:13 PM EDT for Calhoun County, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 1995, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 1995, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Calhoun County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 292 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°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 191714
SVRCAE
SCC017-075-191800-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
113 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 LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CALHOUN COUNTY...ORANGEBURG COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN WESTERN ORANGEBURG
COUNTY NEAR NORWAY MOVING TOWARDS ROWESVILLE AND ORANGEBURG. ANOTHER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED JUST WEST OF ST MATTHEWS IN CALHOUN
COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 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.

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, 9:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESaluda65 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, 1:49 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every 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.