Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 14, 1995, 12:54 PM EST for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 1995, 12:54 PM EST (17:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 1995, 1:15 PM EST
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 712 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCHS 141757 RRA SVRCHS SCC015-035-141900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1254 PM EST SAT JAN 14 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...BERKELEY COUNTY...DORCHESTER COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING GOLFBALL SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC NEAR SUMMERVILLE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS PATH WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO THE BERKELEY COUNTY WITHIN THE HOUR. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASI~ONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
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 14, 10:00 AM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 10 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995 SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-141630- SOUTH COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND SC COASTAL WATERS .NOW... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR COASTAL COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 4 PM... ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR CHARLESTON HARBOR AND COASTAL WATERS... ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT... TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 4 PM. CHARLESTON RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES. AT THIS TIME...MOST OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE MIDLANDS AND PIEDMONT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. OLIVER
Special weather statement, Jan 14, 10:09 AM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 10 AM EST SAT JAN 14 1995 SCZ042>045-047>050-501-502-141630- SOUTH COASTAL SOUTH CAROLINA AND SC COASTAL WATERS .NOW... ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR COASTAL COUNTIES AND ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS OF SOUTH CAROLINA UNTIL 4 PM... ...GALE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR CHARLESTON HARBOR AND COASTAL WATERS... ...LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT... TORNADO WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR COASTAL COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA EFFECTIVE UNTIL 4 PM. CHARLESTON RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES. AT THIS TIME...MOST OF THE HEAVIER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE MIDLANDS AND PIEDMONT. THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE OVER THE COASTAL COUNTIES WITHIN THE NEXT 2 TO 3 HOURS. YOU SHOULD MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND LOCAL MEDIA FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND WARNINGS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF THREATENvING WEATHER APPROACHES. OLIVER
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.