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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Columbia, SC

June 11, 1995Clarendon County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 5:02 PM EDT for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1995, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Clarendon County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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: 2123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 567 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 12 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 
WUUS1 KCAE 112102 RRA
SVRCAE
SCC027-112200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
502 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CLARENDON COUNTY
 
AT 502 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHWEST
OF MANNING MOVING EAST AROUND 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO MANNING
IN ABOUT 15 MINUTES.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 11, 3:16 PM EDT, 1 hour 46 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
316 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 95

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
310 PM     ELGIN                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/95   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          TREES DOWN.

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
319 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
310 PM     ELGIN                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/95   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          TREES DOWN.

314 PM     NEESES                    SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/95   ORANGEBURG                     ORANGEBURG EOC

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
319 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
310 PM     ELGIN                     SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/95   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          TREES DOWN.

314 PM     NEESES                    SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/11/95   ORANGEBURG                     OR\ANGEBURG EOC

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
323 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
315 PM     CAMDEN                    SC   TREES DOWN
06/11/95   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY EOC

Local storm report, Jun 11, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
323 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
315 PM     CAMDEN          `          SC   TREES DOWN
06/11/95   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY EOC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McCormick	41 min
Jun 11, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	65 min
Jun 11, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	68 min
Jun 11, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richland	55 min
Jun 11, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lee, Sumter	66 min
Jun 11, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	30 min
Jun 11, 7:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Orangeburg	39 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.