Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 1995Aiken County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT for Aiken County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Aiken County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 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.

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, Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
535 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995

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

0505 PM     CHESTER                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    CHESTER                        POWER LINES AND LARGE
                                           LIMBS DOWN IN AND
                                           NORTH OF CHESTER.
                                           OBSERVER.

RCC

Local storm report, Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
535 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995

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

0505 PM     CHESTER                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    CHESTER                        POWER LINES AND LARGE
                                           LIMBS DOWN IN AND
                                           NORTH OF CHESTER.
                                           OBSERVER.

RCC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 4:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	York	66 min
Jun 9, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	55 min
Jun 9, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	56 min
Jun 9, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Edgefield, Saluda	65 min
Jun 9, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee	58 min
Jun 9, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken, Barnwell	63 min
Jun 9, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	57 min
Jun 9, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	69 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Every 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.