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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 77, NWS Charleston, SC

July 7, 1995Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1995, 6:24 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 7, 1995, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 7, 1995, 7:30 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 12:00Z, 10.4 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: 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 072228 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC015-072330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
624 PM EDT FRI JUL 7 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
 
   ...BERKELEY COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE MARION ABOUT 10 MILES
NORTH OF MONCKS CORNER. THE STORM IS 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 HDOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
SLB

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 7, 1:56 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
156 PM EDT FRI JUL 07 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
925 AM     CORDESVILLE               SC   1.0 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   BERKELEY                       BERKELEY CO SHERIFF

1225 PM    NORTH CHARLESTON          SC   1.0 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     CHARLESTON SHERIFF DEPT

1228 PM    CHARLESTON                SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     COUNTY EPD

105 PM     DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON       SC   60 MPH WIND
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     NWS AUTOMATED WIND
                                          EQUIPMENT

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Local storm report, Jul 7, 2:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
156 PM EDT FRI JUL 07 1995

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
925 AM     CORDESVILLE               SC   1.0 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   BERKELEY                       BERKELEY CO SHERIFF

1225 PM    NORTH CHARLESTON          SC   1.0 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     CHARLESTON SHERIFF DEPT

1228 PM    CHARLESTON                SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     COUNTY EPD

105 PM     DOWNTOWN CHARLESTON       SC   60 MPH WIND
07/07/95   CHARLESTON                     NWS AUTOMATED WIND
                                          EQUIPMENT

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 9:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	65 min
Jul 7, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	41 min
Jul 7, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	33 min
Jul 7, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston, Dorchester	25 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.