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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Charleston, SC

June 1, 1995Bryan County, Liberty County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT for Bryan County, Liberty County, Georgia. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1995, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Bryan County, GA, Liberty County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 159 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1219 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1995-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 39 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1219 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
866 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCHS 011830 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC029-179-011930-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
230 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  330 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BRYAN COUNTY...LIBERTY COUNTY
 
A THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL WAS DETECTED BY WEATHER RADAR NEAR MIDWAY
IN LIBERTY COUNTY MOVING NORTH AROUND 10 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.

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

Local storm report, Jun 1, 2:25 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
220 PM EDT JUN 01 1995

TIME(EDT)     CITY LOCATION....    STATE....EVENT/REMARK....
              COUNTY LOCATION..

215 PM        RIDGEVILLE           SC       MARBLE SIZE /.50 INCH/
              DORCHESTER                    HAIL REPTD BY FIRE DEPT

JFT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSEffingham56 min
Jun 1, 4:21 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSTattnall69 min

Nearby

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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.