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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Charleston, SC

June 1, 1995Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1995, 4:02 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1995, 4:02 PM EDT (20:02 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Hampton County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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 1995-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1736 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 103 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
1736 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
531 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
3.5

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 012003 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC049-012100-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
402 PM EDT THU JUN 1 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...HAMPTON COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN HAMPTON COUNTY
LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST ESTILL AND MOVING NORTHEAST AROUND 30 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 JINSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, 1 hour 37 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

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.