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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 111, NWS Charleston, SC

November 7, 1995Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1995, 4:04 PM EST for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 7, 1995, 4:04 PM EST (21:04 UTC)
Expired
Nov 7, 1995, 5:00 PM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 31 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 1995-11-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1995-11-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 363 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 072106 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC015-035-072200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
404 PM EST TUE NOV 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BERKELEY COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS ACROSS INLAND
PORTIONS OF DORCHESTER AND BERKELEY COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING
EAST NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS.  IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNED AREA... SEEK
SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 7, 4:20 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSDorchester40 min
Nov 7, 4:25 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort50 min
Nov 7, 4:25 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSJasper50 min
Nov 7, 4:36 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBerkeley, Charleston54 min
Nov 7, 5:14 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort31 min
Nov 7, 5:32 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSBeaufort, Charleston, Colleton43 min
Nov 7, 5:32 PM ESTTornado WarningCHSJasper43 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.