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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Columbia, SC

January 27, 1996Lincoln County, Georgia

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 27, 1996, 2:04 AM EST for Lincoln County, Georgia. It was in force for 41 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: Jan 27, 1996, 2:04 AM EST (07:04 UTC)
Expired: Jan 27, 1996, 2:45 AM EST
In force: 41 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 07:08 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 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: 6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 676 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 904 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KCAE 270703 RRA
SVRCAE
GAC181-270745-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
204 AM EST SAT JAN 27 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  GEORGIA
 
   ...LINCOLN COUNTY
 
AT 200 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING LINCOLN COUNTY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. THE STORMS
WILL BEGIN TO MOVE INTO THE WEST PART OF THE COUNTY AROUND 215 AM.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
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.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
AMATEUR RADIO AND OTHER SPOTTERS ARE REQUESTED TO MONITOR THIS
STORM AND RELAY REPORTS PROMPTLY TO THE NEAREST NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE.
 
RJL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 27, 2:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	McDuffie	52 min
Jan 27, 2:43 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Columbia	47 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.