Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 7, 1995, 4:07 AM EST for Charleston County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 1995, 4:07 AM EST (09:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 7, 1995, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Charleston County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 16 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 117 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 364 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 610 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KCHS 070907 RRA SVRCHS SCC019-035-071015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 407 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...CHARLESTON COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY AT 400 AM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED RAPIDLY ACROSS THE COASTAL COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH SOUTHERN DORCHESTER COUNTY INCLUDING SUMMERVILLE...AND ALSO ACROSS THE CHARLESTON AREA WITH STRONG AND 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. ML
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, Jan 7, 1:13 AM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
SCZ042>045-047>050-070900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 100 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA COASTAL COUNTIES UNTIL 400 AM... VERY STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA OVERNIGHT. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 100 AM...WINDS GUSTED UP TO 51 MILES AN HOUR AT THE NORTH CHARLESTON AIRPORT. DURING THE OVERNIGHT WIND SPEEDS IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES WILL AVERAGE 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. WIND GUSTS MAY EXCEED 55 MILES AN HOUR...ESPECIALLY IN AND AROUND ANY THUNDERSTORMS. RESIDENTS IN THE COASTAL COUNTIES SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS COULD RESULT IVN BLOWING DEBRIS AND COULD DOWN TREE BRANCHES. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAVIS
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 1:57 AM EST, 2 hours 10 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 158 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 400 AM THIS MORNING... AT 150 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMCONTINUING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP AND ALONG A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF VALDOSTA EXTENDING NORTHWARD THROUGH NASHVILLE...LUMBER CITY...VIDALIA...SYLVANIA AND INTO SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES PER HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 1:58 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-070800- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 158 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 400 AM THIS MORNING... AT 150 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMCONTINUING OVER PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP AND ALONG A LINE FROM JUST WEST OF VALDOSTA EXTENDING NORTHWARD THROUGH NASHVILLE...LUMBER CITY...VIDALIA...SYLVANIA AND INTO SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES PER HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 2:31 AM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-070915- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 231 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA UNTIL 400 AM THIS MORNING... AT 225 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN WARE COUNTY. THIS AND OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE PART OF A LINE FROM SOUTHWEST OF WAYCROSSS EXTENDING NORTHEAST TO SCREVEN COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL AS THEY MOVE RAPIDLY TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT AROUND 35 MILES PER HOUR. REMEMBER...A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR TH DEVELOPMENT OF TORNADOES IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS MAY ALSO OCCUR. BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 3:45 AM EST, 22 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-071015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 345 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHEAST AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 900 AM... AT 340 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SAVANNAH EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH MIDWAY AND EVERETT CITY TO THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. WWUS35KDAB /V
Special weather statement, Jan 7, 3:47 AM EST, 20 minutes before
GAZ135-149-134-148-152-116-117-100-165-166-099-164-118-119-163- 132-162-101-115-153-154-133-161-138-139-137-160-140-141-151-114- 113-150-136-071015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAVANNAH GA 345 AM EST SAT JAN 7 1995 ...THE TORNADO WATCH FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND MUCH OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA HAS BEEN CANCELLED... ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SOUTHEAST AND PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL GEORGIA UNTIL 900 AM... AT 340 AM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SAVANNAH EXTENDING SOUTHWESTWARD THROUGH MIDWAY AND EVERETT CITY TO THE OKEFENOKEE SWAMP. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR AND MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES PER HOUR...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND SMALL HAIL. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR A LOCAL TELEVISION OR RADIO STATION FOR FURTHER ^UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 2:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 55 min |
| Jan 7, 2:50 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton | 55 min |
| Jan 7, 3:24 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 66 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.