Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Charleston, SC

May 19, 1995Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 1:42 PM EDT for Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 295 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 759 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 191744
SVRCHS
SCC029-035-191845-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
142 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...COLLETON COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IS INDICATING SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
HAMPTON AND ORANGEBURG COUNTIES. THESE STORMS ARE ENTERING NORTHERN
SECTIONS OF COLLETON AND DORCHESTER COUNTIES.
 
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 WATER CROSSINGS.
 
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, May 19, 12:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

GAZ135-134-116-117-100-099-132-101-115-133-137-114-136-191715-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA
1212 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 452 IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST
GEORGIA INCLUDING CANDLER...BULLOCH AND JEFF DAVIS COUNTIES...

AT 1210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A DEVELOPING
AREA OF POTENTIALLY-SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL AND EAST CENTRAL
GEORGIA.  AN ASSOCIATED CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO CANDLER
COUNTY.

THROUGH 115 PM...THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS CANDLER AND
NORTHERN BULLOCH COUNTY AND HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS
UP TO 45 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE
TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE
POSSIBLE IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA.  PERSONS IN THOSE AREAS SHOULD
REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND STAY TUNED TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Hampton	55 min
May 19, 1:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	56 min
May 19, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	67 min
May 19, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	60 min
May 19, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	69 min
May 19, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	62 min
May 19, 6:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	44 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1995 Every 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.