Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 1995Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 5:58 PM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 62 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Dorchester County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 43 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: 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 062155 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC035-062300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
558 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...DORCHESTER COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER RIDGEVILLE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
 
 
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.

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, Jul 6, 5:40 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
540 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
520 PM     LODGE                     SC   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
07/06/95   COLLETON                       TRAINED SPOTTER

SLB

Local storm report, Jul 6, 5:43 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
540 PM EDT THU JUL 06 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
520 PM     LODGE                     SC   GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
07/06/95   COLLETON                       TRAINED SPOTTER

SLB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	64 min
Jul 6, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	67 min
Jul 6, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	53 min
Jul 6, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	37 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.