Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 6:04 PM EDT for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1995, 6:04 PM EDT (22:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 155 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.
- 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
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, 29 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.
RCCLocal storm report, Jun 9, 5:35 PM EDT, 29 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.
RCCThe 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, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 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, 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.