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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Charleston, SC

May 13, 1995Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 1995, 11:50 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 70 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 1995, 11:50 PM EDT (03:50 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 1:00 AM EDT
In force
70 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, 3.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2022 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2022 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 140352
SVRCHS
SCC019-140500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1150 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CHARLESTON COUNTY
 
THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF
ADAMS RUN...RAVENEL...HOLLYWOOD...AND WADMALAW ISLAND
 
AT 1150 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NORTH OF JACKSONBORO IN COLLETON
COUNTY.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WEST PORTION OF CHARLESTON
COUNTY THROUGH 100 AM...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATE$R CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSDorchester51 min
May 13, 10:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton59 min
May 14, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton49 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.