Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 28, 1995, 10:37 PM EST for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 1995, 10:37 PM EST (03:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 28, 1995, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Charleston County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 80 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 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 KCHS 290339 RRA SVRCHS SCC019-290445- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1037 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1145 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...CHARLESTON COUNTY THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF EDISTO BEACH...SEABROOK AND KIAWAH ISLANDS AND FOLLY BEACH. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS INDICATING A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR BEAUFORT MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. TJR
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, Jan 28, 7:45 PM EST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-290230-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT ...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
745 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH
COASTAL AREA UNTIL 1 AM...
AT 740 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM AUGUSTA GEORGIA TO ABOUT 20 MILES EAST OF MACON.
MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE EAST...MOVING INTO HAMPTON AND JASPER
COUNTIES BY 10 PM. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD HISTORY OF PRODUCING STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL IN CENTRAL GEORGIA.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INSIDE AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
TJRSpecial weather statement, Jan 28, 8:25 PM EST, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 825 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH COASTAL AREA UNTIL 1 AM... AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SAVANNAH MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH HILTON HEAD ISLAND...AS WELL AS HUNTING AND FRIPP ISLANDS BY 9 PM. ELSEWHERE...A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FROM WESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY THROUGH BARNWELL COUNTY AND INTO BURKE COUNTY...GA. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO HAMPTON...JASPER AND NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTIES AROUND 9 PM. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTH COASTAL REGION THIS EVENING. . IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TJR
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 8:27 PM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-290300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 825 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH COASTAL AREA UNTIL 1 AM... AT 820 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING AN ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SAVANNAH MOVING TOWARD THE EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH HILTON HEAD ISLAND...AS WELL AS HUNTING AND FRIPP ISLANDS BY 9 PM. ELSEWHERE...A STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES FROM WESTERN ORANGEBURG COUNTY THROUGH BARNWELL COUNTY AND INTO BURKE COUNTY...GA. THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO HAMPTON...JASPER AND NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTIES AROUND 9 PM. THE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AROUND 40 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL AS THEY MOVE THROUGH THE SOUTH COASTAL REGION THIS EVENING. . IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TJR
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 8:40 PM EST, 1 hour 57 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-290245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 840 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 57 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 55 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 840 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF SWAINSBORO NORTHEAST TO SYLVANIA TO COLUMBIA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH THROUGH EAST OF MACON...ALSO ALONG COASTAL SECTIONS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILE PER HOUR. THE STORM NEAR SWAINSBORO WILL MOVE INTO CANDLER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD STAY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 8:42 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-290245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 840 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 57 CONTINUES IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EST SUNDAY MORNING FOR NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA... ...TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 55 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... AT 840 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM JUST SOUTH OF SWAINSBORO NORTHEAST TO SYLVANIA TO COLUMBIA. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED SOUTH THROUGH EAST OF MACON...ALSO ALONG COASTAL SECTIONS OF BEAUFORT COUNTY SOUTH CAROLINA. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MILE PER HOUR. THE STORM NEAR SWAINSBORO WILL MOVE INTO CANDLER COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HALF HOUR. PEOPLE IN SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA SHOULD STAY ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATjHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATION FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNING.
Special weather statement, Jan 28, 9:40 PM EST, 57 minutes before
SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-290400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 940 PM EST SAT JAN 28 1995 ...A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FROM EDISTO BEACH TO THE CHARLESTON HARBOR TIL 1000 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR HAMPTON AND JASPER COUNTIES TIL 1015 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR BEAUFORT AND COLLETON COUNTIES TIL 1115 PM... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE ENTIRE SOUTH COASTAL AREA UNTIL 1 AM... AT 935 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR WAS SHOWING SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ON THE COAST FROM THE CHARLESTON HARBOR TO HUNTING ISLAND. A LINE OF VERY STRONG STORMS IS NOW ENTERING HAMPTON AND JASPER COUNTIES FROM THE WEST. MOVEMENT IS TOWARD THE EAST AT 40 MPH. THESE STORMS HAVE HAD HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AND HAIL IN EASTERN GEORGIA AND ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE ENTIRE SOUTH COASTAL REGION BEFORE MIDNIGHT. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...MOVE INDOORS BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TJR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 8:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 35 min |
| Jan 28, 9:12 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton, Jasper | 63 min |
| Jan 28, 9:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 115 min |
| Jan 28, 10:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 61 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.