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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Charleston, SC

June 5, 1995Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 1995, 1:37 PM EDT for Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 1995, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 1995, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
53 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 50 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 1995-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 526 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 1995-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 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
526 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCHS 051737 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC029-035-051830-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
137 PM EDT MON JUN 5 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  230 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...COLLETON COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR COTTAGEVILLE AND
ANOTHER NEAR GIVHANS.
 
 
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.

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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.