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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 1995Colleton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 5:11 PM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Colleton County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 61 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 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1586 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 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 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
1586 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
932 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 062112 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC029-062215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
511 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTY
 
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING NORTHERN COLLETON COUNTY
NEAR LODGE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 10 MILES PER HOUR.
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSDorchester62 min
Jul 6, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSJasper67 min
Jul 6, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton53 min
Jul 6, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale37 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.