Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 105, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 1995, 8:40 AM EDT for Berkeley County, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 5, 1995, 8:40 AM EDT (12:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 5, 1995, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 345 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
- 896 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 528 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 375 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 2.0
- Supercell composite
- 11.9
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
Special weather statement, Oct 5, 4:17 AM EDT, 4 hours 23 minutes before
SCZ040-042>045-047>050-501-502-051000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 417 AM EDT THU OCT 5 1995 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM CHARLESTON HARBOR TO THE SAVANNAH RIVER UNTIL 515 A.M.... DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE COASTAL WATERS OF THE SOUTH COAST EXTENDING TO THE NORTH THROUGH CHARLESTON...BERKELEY AND DORCHESTER COUNTIES. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 25 MPH. SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG GUSTY WINDS...BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CAUSE PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS IN LOW LYING AREAS AND PLACES WITH POOR DRAINAGE. THE SHERIFF OFFICE IN JASPER COUNTY REPORTED LIMBS DOWN IN SEVERAL AREAS. COLLETON COUNTY SHERIFF OFFICE HAD A COUPLE OF TREES DOWN. J H
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 2:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 63 min |
| Oct 5, 3:33 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 57 min |
| Oct 5, 4:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 63 min |
| Oct 5, 5:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 81 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.