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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Columbia, SC

May 19, 1995Chesterfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 5:51 PM EDT for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Chesterfield County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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 192153
SVRCAE
SCC025-192245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
551 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CHESTERFIELD COUNTY
 
AT 555 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING INTO CHESTERFIELD COUNTY FROM UNION COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA. THIS
STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH
PAGELAND BY 615 PM. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED DIME-SIZE HAIL AND HAS
DOWNED TREES IN UNION COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA.
 
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.
 
JOO

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, 12:22 PM EDT, 5 hours 29 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, 4 hours 46 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

Local storm report, May 19, 1:29 PM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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

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

105 PM        JACKSON                SC       .75 INCH HAIL HWY 125
5/19/95       AIKEN

120 PM        SNELLING               SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       BARNWELL                        TREES DOWN

125 PM        SHELL BLUFF            GA       1.75 INCH HAIL HWY 23
5/19/95       BURKE

Local storm report, May 19, 2:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before

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

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

126 PM        3S ORANGEBURG          SC       .75 INCH HAIL HWY 21
5/19/95       ORANGEBURG

127 PM        5SW BARNWELL           SC       1.75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       BARNWELL                        TREES DOWN

150 PM        N. MCDUFFIE            GA       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       MCDUFFIE

155 PM        AUGUSTA & HEPHZIBAH    SC       1.00 INCH HAIL WSO AGS AND
5/19/95       RICHMOND                        FAA AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TWR

200 PM        DENMARK                SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       BAMBERG

205 PM        GRANTSVILLE            SC       .75 INCH HAIL
5/19/95       AIKEN                           TREES DOWN

212 PM        4W MANNING             SC       1.00 INCH HAIL HWY 261
5/19/95       CLARENDON                       TREES DOWN

SJN

Special weather statement, May 19, 3:40 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

GAZ087-088-SCZ040-192240-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AUGUSTA GA
340 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALLENDALE COUNTY SOUTH
CAROLINA UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING...

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

WEATHER RADAR AT 330 PM EDT INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM NEAR SUMTER SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHWEST TO NEAR
MILLEDGEVILLE GEORGIA. ELSEWHERE AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS
SCATTERED FROM ALLENDALE COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTHEAST TO THE COASTAL
COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS IN AIKEN COUNTY
SOUTH CAROLINA ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF THE CITY OF AIKEN. MOVEMENT WAS
TO THE EAST AND NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON THERE WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL AND
STRONG GUSTY WIND FROM SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS INCLUDING A POSSIBLE
TORNADO IN SOUTH RICHMOND COUNTY GEORGIA.  ONE-INCH DIAMETER HAIL WAS
REPORTED AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER OFFICE IN AUGUSTA SHORTLY AFTER 2 PM
EDT.

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

STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.

STAY TUNED TO 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, 12:11 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

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.