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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 1995Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 7:03 PM EDT (23:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Richmond County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 200 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 092304 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC245-100000-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
703 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...RICHMOND COUNTY
 
AT 703 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST WEST OF AUGUSTA IN
RICHMOND COUNTY MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
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.
 
RCC

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, 1 hour 28 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, 1 hour 28 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, 7:00 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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

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

0614 PM     MONETTA                   SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/95    AIKEN                          SPOTTER.

0617 PM     WOLO-TV                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       60 MPH WINDS.

0621 PM     COLUMBIA                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN.
                                           OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.

0621 PM     LUGOFF                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    KERSHAW                        TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
                                           SHERIFF REPORT.

0627 PM     COLUMBIA                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       FEW LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                           OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.

RCC

Local storm report, Jun 9, 7:02 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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

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

0614 PM     MONETTA                   SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/09/95    AIKEN                          SPOTTER.

0617 PM     WOLO-TV                   SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       60 MPH WINDS.

0621 PM     COLUMBIA                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       NUMEROUS LIMBS DOWN.
                                           OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.

0621 PM     LUGOFF                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    KERSHAW                        TREES DOWN ON POWER LINES.
                                           SHERIFF REPORT.

0627 PM     COLUMBIA                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95    RICHLAND                       FEW LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN.
                                           OFF-DUTY NWS EMPLOYEE.

RCC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Burke	69 min

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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.