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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Charleston, SC

July 23, 1995Effingham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 9:17 PM EDT for Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 9:17 PM EDT (01:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Effingham County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 1995-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3133 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 1995-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 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
3133 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1041 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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 240116 RRA
SVRCHS
GAC103-240200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
917 PM EDT SUN JUL 23 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...EFFINGHAM COUNTY
 
AT 910 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING THROUGH EFFINGHAM COUNTY
NEAR SPRINGFIELD. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...TORRENTIAL RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST
THROUGH RINCON AND STILLWELL BY 945 PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'LT USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.

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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.