Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Columbia, SC

May 29, 1996Kershaw County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 6:23 PM EDT for Kershaw County, South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min. 2 reports 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: May 29, 1996, 6:23 PM EDT (22:23 UTC)
Expired: May 29, 1996, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Columbia, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Kershaw County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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
May 29, 6:49 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Bethune, SC
May 29, 7:12 PM EDT	Hail 1	Westville, 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -227 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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 
TTAA00 KCAE 292224
SVRCAE
SCC055-292330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
623 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN  SOUTH CAROLINA
 
   ...KERSHAW COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
ACROSS SOUTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT
30 MPH AND WILL ENTER NORTHWEST KERSHAW COUNTY...EAST OF LAKE WATEREE AT
AROUND 630 PM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE TOWARD THE CAMDEN AREA BY 715 PM.
 
 
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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN ALSO PRODUCE TORNADOES.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...lAND 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.
 
MPD/LCV

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 29, 6:19 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
619 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996

TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           .....COUNTY LOCATION.....
611 PM     5 SW LANCASTER            SC   1.75 INCH HAIL
05/29/96   LANCASTER                      GOLFBALL HAIL 5 MILES
                                          SOUTHWEST OF LANCASTER
                                          REPORTED BY LANCASTER
      d                                    SHERIFF.

RCC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 29, 5:55 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Lancaster	45 min
May 29, 7:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CAE	Kershaw, Lee	49 min
May 29, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CAE	Lancaster	38 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.