Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 21, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1995, 4:06 PM EST for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 1995, 4:06 PM EST (21:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1995, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Clarendon County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.1 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 363 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 419 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 072106 TORCAE SCC027-072200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 406 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...CLARENDON COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER WESTERN CLARENDON COUNTY AT 405 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! SEEK SHELTER NOW! DO NOT STAY IN A CAR OR MOBILE HOME DURING A TORNADO. CARS AND MOBILE HOMES ARE EASILY TOSSED AROUND BY TORNADO WINDS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...LEAVE THE CAR OR MOBILE HOME AND GO fTO A STRONG BUILDING. IF NO STRUCTURE IS NEARBY...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT. BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW AREAS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Columbia, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 2:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Aiken | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 2:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Fairfield | 32 min |
| Nov 7, 3:03 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Aiken | 27 min |
| Nov 7, 3:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lexington | 34 min |
| Nov 7, 3:16 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 29 min |
| Nov 7, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Barnwell, Orangeburg | 40 min |
| Nov 7, 3:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 40 min |
| Nov 7, 3:21 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Richland | 24 min |
| Nov 7, 3:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Richland | 18 min |
| Nov 7, 3:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Lee, Sumter | 42 min |
| Nov 7, 3:53 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Calhoun | 37 min |
| Nov 7, 3:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Bamberg, Orangeburg | 46 min |
| Nov 7, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Chesterfield | 20 min |
Nearby
Tornado Warnings in South Carolina, 1995Every tornado warning in 1995Tornadoes 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.