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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 1995Fairfield County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 5:20 PM EDT for Fairfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 9, 1995, 5:20 PM EDT (21:20 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Fairfield County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:19 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 196 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 1995-06-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 835 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1995-06-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 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
835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1410 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
4 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 9, 4:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEYork66 min
Jun 9, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken56 min
Jun 9, 6:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington, Richland56 min
Jun 9, 6:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield, Saluda65 min
Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELee58 min
Jun 9, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken, Barnwell63 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond57 min
Jun 9, 7:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBurke69 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.