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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Charleston, SC

July 10, 1995Beaufort County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 4:18 PM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 min.

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The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 1995, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Beaufort County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 89 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 1995-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2339 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 1995-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 20 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
2339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
989 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 10, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston67 min
Jul 10, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley62 min
Jul 10, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham60 min

Nearby

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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.