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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Charleston, SC

July 7, 1995Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1995, 12:57 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 1995, 12:57 PM EDT (16:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 1995, 1:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Charleston County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 1995-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1210 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 1995-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 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
1210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
849 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 071658 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC019-071730-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1257 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...CHARLESTON COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS...
 
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON AND THE CHARLESTON HARBOR
WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HAIL, GUSTY WINDS, HEAVY RAINS, AND DANGEROUS
LIGHTNING.
 
 
BOATER AND OTHER RECREATIONAL USERS IN THE WARNED AREA SHOULD
MOVE TO SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
 
SLB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 9:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley65 min
Jul 7, 12:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston41 min
Jul 7, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley66 min
Jul 7, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSCharleston, Dorchester25 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.