Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Charleston, SC

June 27, 1995Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1995, 9:09 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1995, 9:09 PM EDT (01:09 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Berkeley County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 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-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: 2212 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1163 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 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 280111 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC015-280215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
909 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BERKELEY COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH FROM CLARENDON
COUNTY INTO NORTHERN BERKELEY COUNTY. THIS DANGEROUS STORM REPORTEDLY
CONTAINED A TORNADO AND DAMAGED A MOBILE HOME NEAR MANNING.
 
THE TOWNS OF EADYTOWN...PINEVILLE...RUSSELLVILLE AND ST. STEPHEN ARE IN
ITS PATH...AS WELL AS PART OF LAKE MOULTRIE.  IF YOU ARE IN THIS STORM/S
PATH YOU SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE 0OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  MOVE TO AN INTERIOUR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 27, 7:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
733 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

410 PM     NORTH CHARLESTON          SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/95   CHARLESTON COUNTY              SPOTTER REPORT - LOCATION
                                          DORCHESTER ROAD AT KENT.
                                          SIMULTANEOUS REPORT FROM
                                          POLICE NEAR THIS LOCATION
                                          OF .50 INCH HAIL.

LAVIS

Local storm report, Jun 27, 7:33 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
733 PM EDT TUE JUN 27 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....

410 PM     NORTH CHARLESTON          SC   .75 INCH HAIL
06/27/95   CHARLESTON COUNTY              SPOTTER REPORT - LOCATION
                                          DORCHESTER ROAD AT KENT.
                                          SIMULTANEOUS REPORT FROM
                                          POLICE NEAR THIS LOCATION
                                          OF .50 INCH HAIL.

LAVIS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	68 min
Jun 28, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	61 min
Jun 28, 3:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Hampton, Jasper	40 min
Jun 28, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 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.