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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Charleston, SC

July 8, 1995Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 1995, 12:02 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 8, 1995, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1995, 12:45 AM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Berkeley County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1995-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2991 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 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
2991 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.5
Supercell composite
3.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KCHS 080403 RRA
SVRCHS
SCC015-080445-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1202 AM EDT SAT JUL 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1245 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...BERKELEY COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR MONCKS CORNER MOVING
RAPIDLY TO THE SOUTHEAST.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATERR CROSSINGS.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 1:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston55 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.