Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Columbia, SC

March 15, 1996Clarendon County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 4:59 PM EST for Clarendon County, South Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 4:59 PM EST (21:59 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Clarendon County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:02 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, 5:18 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Summerton/Manning, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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, 3:41 PM EST, 1 hour 18 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, 56 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

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:43 PM EST, 16 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
434 PM     WAGENER                   SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/15/96   AIKEN                          WAGENER POLICE REPORTS 3/4
                                          INCH HAIL IN TOWN OF
                                          WAGENER.

CTC/LCV

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:48 PM EST, 11 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
449 PM     3 NW SANDY RUN            SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   CALHOUN                        HIGHWAY
                                          PATROL...ORANGEBURG
                                          COUNTY. TREES DOWN NEAR
                                          THE INTERSECTION OF HWY 31
                                          AND 21.

LCV/CL

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:56 PM EST, 3 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
450 PM     MARTINEZ                  GA   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   COLUMBIA                       MARTINEZ FIRE DEPT.
                                          REPORTS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN.

452 PM     AUGUSTA                   GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/15/96   RICHMOND                       RICHMOND COUNTY EPD
                                          REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL IN
                                          DOWNTOWN AUGUSTA...

CTC

Local storm report, Mar 15, 4:59 PM EST, 0 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
459 PM     AIKEN                     SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
03/15/96   AIKEN                          AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
                                          REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL ON
                                          SW CORNER OF    AIKEN.

CTC

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, 3:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lexington, Richland	63 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, 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.