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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Charleston, SC

June 9, 1995Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1995, 9:36 PM EDT for Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 69 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1995, 9:36 PM EDT (01:36 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1995, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 69 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Bryan County, GA, Chatham County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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: 1479 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1767 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 100137 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC029-051-109-267-100245-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
936 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...BRYAN COUNTY...CHATHAM COUNTY...EVANS COUNTY
   ...TATTNALL COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS
 
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE
COAST. NUMEROUS TREES HAVE BEEN DOWNED BY THESE STORMS EARLIER THIS
EVENING.
 
 
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.
 
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

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:45 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
845 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995

TIME (LST)     .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
               ....COUNTY LOCATION....

810 PM
               ALLENDALE COUNTY          SC    NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
                                               TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE

830 PM
               SCREVEN COUNTY            GA    NUMEROUS TREES AND LIMBS
                                               DOWN COUNTYWIDE

835 PM         MILLEN                    GA    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
               JENKINS COUNTY

TJR

Local storm report, Jun 9, 8:47 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
845 PM EDT FRI JUN 9 1995

TIME (LST)     .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE    ...EVENT/REMARKS...
               ....COUNTY LOCATION....

810 PM
               ALLENDALE COUNTY          SC    NUMEROUS REPORTS OF
                                               TREES DOWN COUNTYWIDE

830 PM
               SCREVEN COUNTY            GA    NUMEROUS TREES AND LIMBS
                                               DOWN COUNTYWIDE

835 PM         MILLEN                    GA    NUMEROUS TREES DOWN
               JENKINS COUNTY

TJR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 8:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	67 min
Jun 9, 8:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	62 min
Jun 9, 8:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	65 min
Jun 9, 8:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	55 min
Jun 9, 9:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	69 min
Jun 9, 9:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Long	65 min
Jun 9, 10:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.