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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 110, NWS Columbia, SC

June 14, 1996Burke County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 1996, 6:19 PM EDT for Burke County, Georgia. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1996, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Burke County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 187 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 1996-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 339 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 1996-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
339 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-126 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 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 KCAE 142219
SVRCAE
GAC033-142315-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
619 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...EASTERN BURKE COUNTY
 
AT 618 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
THE BARNWELL-BURKE COUNTY LINE MOVING SOUTHWEST ABOUT 10 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
THESE WINDS BLOW DOWN TREES...POWER LINES...AND SEVERELY DAMAGE
MOBILE HOMES.  FOR YOUZR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
BC

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, Jun 14, 5:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
502 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
315 PM  4   AIKEN COUNTY              SC   WIND DAMAGE
06/14/96   AIKEN COUNTY                   SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORTS
                                          THREE TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          HIGHWAYS 1 AND 391.

HG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond34 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.