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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 1995Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1995, 3:02 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1995, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lexington County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 162 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2344 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2344 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
3.3

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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 12, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 47 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 12, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken34 min
Jun 12, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield60 min
Jun 12, 2:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESaluda50 min
Jun 12, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAENewberry60 min
Jun 12, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland67 min
Jun 12, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw56 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster59 min
Jun 12, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcDuffie60 min
Jun 12, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia67 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.