Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 7:52 PM EDT for Lancaster County, South Carolina. It was in force for 38 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
- May 29, 1996, 7:52 PM EDT (23:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lancaster County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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, 8:03 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Heath Springs, 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 171 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KCAE 292353 SVRCAE SCC057-300030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC 752 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN COLUMBIA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHWESTERN LANCASTER COUNTY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD SOUTHWEST LANCASTER COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL MOVE INTO LANCASTER COUNTY NEAR FISHING CREEK POND AROUND 800 PM. THIS STORM WILL CONTINUE SOUTHEAST AND APPROACH THE TOWN OF STONEBORO AROUND 815 PM. 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. 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, 1 hour 33 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.
RCCLocal storm report, May 29, 6:59 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
659 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
649 PM BETHUNE SC .75 INCH HAIL
05/29/96 KERSHAW DIME SIZE HAIL AT BETHUNE
FROM KERSHAW SHERIFF.
RCCLocal storm report, May 29, 7:19 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBIA SC
719 PM EDT WED MAY 29 1996
TIME (EDT) .....CITY LOCATION....... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
712 PM WESTVILLE SC 1.00 INCH HAIL
05/29/96 KERSHAW KERSHAW POLICE REPORT
AWPThe 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, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 67 min |
| May 29, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CAE | Kershaw, Lee | 49 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.