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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Charleston, SC

July 23, 1995Jasper County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 1995, 9:38 PM EDT for Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 1995, 9:38 PM EDT (01:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Jasper County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 110 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 office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 10:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort65 min
Jul 24, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSAllendale60 min
Jul 23, 9:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSEffingham43 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.