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Tornado Warning 12, NWS Columbia, SC

October 27, 1995Lexington County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT for Lexington County, South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
26 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 21:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 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 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 653 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 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
653 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-38 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-125 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 272148
TORCAE
SCC063-272215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
549 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY
 
AT 545 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A POSSIBLE TORNADO
OVER WESTERN LEXINGTON COUNTY...JUST EAST OF BATESBURG-LEESVILLE. THIS
IS A DANGEROUS STORM...SEEK SAFE SHELTER NOW! THIS STORM WAS MOVING
TOWARDS LEXINGTON.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW
GROUND IF AVAILABLE.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY
FURNITURE.  OTHERWISE...GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...OR CUSHIONS TO COVER
YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES.
 
AWP

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEEdgefield25 min
Oct 27, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELancaster27 min
Oct 27, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAESaluda37 min
Oct 27, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington62 min
Oct 27, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland31 min
Oct 27, 6:38 PM EDTTornado WarningCAERichland37 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.