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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Columbia, SC

June 9, 1995Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 7:51 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 7:51 PM EDT (23:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 092353 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC033-100100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
751 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BURKE COUNTY
 
AT 752 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL POTENTIALLY SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH OVER NORTH AND WEST
BURKE COUNTY GEORGIA.
 
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, 2 hours 16 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, 2 hours 16 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, 51 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, 49 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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 7:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	57 min

Nearby

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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.