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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 1995Colleton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 6:22 PM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 1995, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 1995, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 53 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, 10.4 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-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 062220 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC029-062330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
622 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...COLLETON COUNTY
 
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF WALTERBORO.
THE STORM IS PERSISTENT AND IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH.
 
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
VSTAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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, 42 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, 39 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, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	62 min
Jul 6, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jasper	67 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.