Alert archive / South Carolina / Tornado Warnings in 1995
Tornado Warning 22, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this tornado warning at Nov 7, 1995, 4:10 PM EST for Chesterfield County, South Carolina. It was in force for 20 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 1995, 4:10 PM EST (21:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 1995, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 20 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chesterfield County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 526 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 072110 TORCAE SCC025-072130- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 410 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...CHESTERFIELD COUNTY AT 407 PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED NEAR MCBEE. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM! SEEK SHELTER NOW! IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. BE ALERT FOR FLOODING OF LOW AREAS. TORNADOES IN THIS AREA ARE HARD TO SEE BECAUSE OF RAIN ...LOW CLOUDS...AND TREES. &
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, 4:06 PM EST | Tornado Warning | CAE | Clarendon | 54 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.