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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 62, NWS Columbia, SC

May 7, 1996Kershaw County, Sumter County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 1996, 9:34 PM EDT for Kershaw County, Sumter County, South Carolina. 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
May 7, 1996, 9:34 PM EDT (01:34 UTC)
Expired
May 7, 1996, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Kershaw County, SC, Sumter County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 321 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 51 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
321 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
749 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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 
TTAA00 KCAE 080134
SVRCAE
SCC055-085-080215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
934 PM EDT TUE MAY 7 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SOUTHERN KERSHAW COUNTY...SUMTER COUNTY
 
WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN
RICHLAND COUNTY TO THE EAST OF FORT JACKSON AT 930 PM WILL MOVE
NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MPH. THIS MOTION WILL TAKE THE STORM INTO SOUTHERN KE
HAND MOST OF SUMTER COUNTY BY 10 PM.  THE STRONGEST PART OF THIS STORM
WILL PASS BETWEEN ELGIN AND SHAW AIR FORCE BASE.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM...TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU ARE IN
ITS PATH. INTENSE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE
AS SOME TORNADOES.
 
TTH

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, May 7, 5:34 PM EDT, 4 hours before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
534 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
422 PM     APPLING                   GA   1.75 INCH HAIL.
05/07/96   COLUMBIA                       COLUMBIA COUNTY EPD
                                          REPORTS GOLF BALL SIZE
                                          HAIL IN APPLING.

438 PM     APPLING                   GA   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96   COLUMBIA                       COLUMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          REPORTS DIME SIZE HAIL
                                          NEAR AND EAST OF  APPLING.

CTC
Local storm report, May 7, 8:23 PM EDT, 1 hour 11 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
823 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
748 PM     RIDGE SPRING              SC   1.00 INCH HAIL
05/07/96   SALUDA                         SALUDA COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          REPORTS QUARTER SIZE HAIL
                                          AND POSSIBLE     FUNNEL
                                          CLOUDS IN THE RIDGE SPRING
                                          AREA.

755 PM     JOHNSTON                  SC   0.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96   EDGEFIELD                      SPOTTER REPORTS DIME-SIZE
                                          HAIL NEAR JOHNSTON.

808 PM     NORWAY                    SC   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/96   ORANGEBURG                     TREES DOWN ON VEHICLE NEAR
                                          NORWAY...REPORTED BY
                                          ORANGEBURG COUNTYSHERIFF.

812 PM     EDGEFIELD                 SC   2.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96   EDGEFIELD                      EDGEFIELD COUNTY SHERIFF
                                          REPORTS BASEBALLL SIZE HAIL
                                          JUST WEST OF THE CITY OF
                                          EDGEFIELD.

CTC
Local storm report, May 7, 9:06 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
906 PM EDT TUE MAY 07 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
852 PM     SANDY RUN                 SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/07/96   CALHOUN                        SPOTTER REPORTS GOLFBALL
                                          SIZE HAIL IN NORTHERN
                                          CALHOUN COUNTY    NEAR
                                          SANDY RUN.

859 PM     5 E SWANSEA               SC   WIND DAMAGE
05/07/96   LEXINGTON                      LEXINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC
                                          SAFETY REPORTS POWER LINES
                                          DOWN EAST OF  SWANSEA IN
                                          SOUTHERN LEXINGTON COUNTY.

CTC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 7, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningCAEEdgefield42 min
May 7, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAECalhoun, Lexington42 min
May 7, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichland58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1996Every 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.