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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Charleston, SC

June 10, 1995Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1995, 5:01 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 10, 1995, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Berkeley County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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 1995-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 901 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1995-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 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
901 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
967 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 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 102100 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC015-102200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
501 PM EDT SAT JUN 10 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BERKELEY COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL WAS DETECTED BY WEATHER RADAR NEAR
MONCKS CORNER..DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH.
 
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.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale67 min
Jun 9, 10:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort40 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.