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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Columbia, SC

June 1, 1995Calhoun County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 6:12 PM EDT for Calhoun County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1995, 6:12 PM EDT (22:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Calhoun County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 113 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1736 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBamberg, Barnwell48 min
Jun 1, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEFairfield47 min
Jun 1, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken51 min
Jun 1, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.