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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 84, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 1995McDuffie County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1995, 1:30 PM EDT for McDuffie County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 12, 1995, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 12, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County McDuffie County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 188 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: 181 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 788 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCAE 121731 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC189-121830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
130 PM EDT MON JUN 12 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...MCDUFFIE COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATES A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
MOVING NORTHEASTWARD INTO MCDUFFIE COUNTY AT ABOUT 35 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.
 
 
 
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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 12, 11:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
1115 AM EDT MON JUN 12 95

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
600 PM     FAIRFIELD COUNTY          SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   FAIRFIELD                      TREES/POWER LINES DOWN-
                                          SHERIFF

615 PM     5 W COLUMBIA              SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   LEXINGTON                      TREES DOWN AT I-26 AND US
                                          378- SPOTTER

715 PM     SALUDA COUNTY             SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   SALUDA                         NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN THROUGHOUT
                                          COUNTY-SHERIFF

715 PM     EDGEFIELD COUNTY          SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   EDGEFIELD                      NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN- SHERIFF

745 PM     RICHMOND COUNTY           GA   WIND DOWN
06/09/95   RICHMOND                       TREES DOWN- WSO AGS

800 PM     WARRENVILLE & GLOVERVILLE SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   AIKEN                          NUMEROUS TREES DOWN- WSO
                                          AGS

815 PM     BARNWELL COUNTY           SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/09/95   BARNWELL                       NUMEROUS TREES/POWER LINES
                                          DOWN THRUT COUNTY-SHERIFF

350 PM     CITY OF ORANGEBURG        SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/11/95   ORANGEBURG                     TREES DOWN- EOC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 12, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.