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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Columbia, SC

March 15, 1996Richmond County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 15, 1996, 5:29 PM EST for Richmond County, Georgia. It was in force for 31 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: Mar 15, 1996, 5:29 PM EST (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Mar 15, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Richmond County, GA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 200 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

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

000 
WUUS1 KCAE 152229 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC245-152300-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
529 PM EST FRI MAR 15 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...RICHMOND COUNTY
 
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR RICHMOND COUNTY ISSUED AT 449 PM AND
EXPIRING AT 530 PM IS EXTENDED UNTIL 600 PM. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES
THAT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 600 PM. THESE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
 
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, 4:03 PM EST, 1 hour 26 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, 46 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, 41 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, 33 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, 30 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

Local storm report, Mar 15, 5:25 PM EST, 4 minutes before

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

TIME (EST) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
515 PM     EVANS                     GA   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   COLUMBIA                       COLUMBIA COUNTY EPD
                                          REPORTS TREES DOWN ON
                                          HOUSES.

518 PM     SUMMERTON                 SC   WIND DAMAGE
03/15/96   CLARENDON                      CLARENDON COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          REPORTS TREES AND POWER
                                          LINES DOWN IN   SUMMERTON
                                          AND AROUND MANNING.

CTC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
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

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.