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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Columbia, SC

June 12, 1995Lancaster County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 12, 1995, 5:46 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 12, 1995, 5:46 PM EDT (21:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 12, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Lancaster County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 171 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 84 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-165 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
972 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
84 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington58 min
Jun 12, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland67 min
Jun 12, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEKershaw56 min
Jun 12, 1:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEMcDuffie60 min
Jun 12, 1:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEColumbia67 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.