Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Columbia, SC

March 15, 1996Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 3:42 PM EST for Lexington County, Richland County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 15, 1996, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lexington County, SC, Richland County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 15, 4:30 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Columbia, SC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1287 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Mar 15, 3:36 PM EST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
336 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
305 PM     WHITMIRE                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   NEWBERRY                       TREES DOWN REPORTED AT
                                          WHITMIRE POST OFFICE.

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 3:36 PM EST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
336 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
305 PM     WHITMIRE                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   NEWBERRY                       TREES DOWN REPORTED AT
                                          WHITMIRE POST OFFICE.

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Local storm report, Mar 15, 3:39 PM EST, 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA, SC
339 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
305 PM     WHITMIRE                  SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   NEWBERRY                       TREES DOWN REPORTED BY
                                          WHITMIRE POST OFFICE.

CTC

Local storm report, Mar 15, 3:41 PM EST, 1 minute before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
341 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
300 PM     WINNSBORO                 SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   FAIRFIELD                      RIDGEWAY POLICE REPORTED
                                          TREES DOWN AT INTERSECTION
                                          OF HWYS 34 & 321 NEAR
                                          WINNSBORO.

CTC/TTH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 15, 2:44 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Fairfield	31 min
Mar 15, 2:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	41 min
Mar 15, 3:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Newberry	22 min
Mar 15, 3:13 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Kershaw	47 min
Mar 15, 3:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	62 min
Mar 15, 4:38 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Calhoun, Orangeburg	67 min
Mar 15, 4:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Aiken	49 min
Mar 15, 4:59 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Clarendon	46 min
Mar 15, 5:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Barnwell	50 min
Mar 15, 6:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Bamberg	43 min
Mar 15, 4:22 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lincoln	38 min
Mar 15, 4:49 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia, McDuffie, Richmond	41 min
Mar 15, 5:29 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Richmond	31 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.