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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Columbia, SC

March 15, 1996Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 4:22 PM EST for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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, 4:22 PM EST (21:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Lincoln County, GA

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:24 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, 4:29 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Clarks Hill Resevoir, GA

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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS1 KCAE 152121 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC181-152200-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
422 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN
LINCOLN COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH WOODLAWN BETWEEN 420 AND
445 PM.
 
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 YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE
LOWEST FLOOR.  DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
CAMMARATA

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, 46 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, 46 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, 43 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, 41 minutes 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

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:03 PM EST, 19 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
403 PM     10 NW BETHUNE             SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   KERSHAW                        KERSHAW COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          REPORTED TREES DOWN IN
                                          BUFFALO CREEK/MT.  PISGAH
                                          AREA.

CTC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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 Georgia, 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.