Alert archive / South Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Columbia, SC
NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 1996, 8:51 PM EDT for Sumter County, South Carolina. It was in force for 39 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, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 1996, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Columbia, SC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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, 9:13 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Sumter, 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 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 118 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
- 1574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1415 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, 2 hours 32 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, 1 hour 52 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, 1 hour 32 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, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CAE | Kershaw | 50 min |
Nearby
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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.