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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Charleston, SC

June 13, 1996Allendale County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1996, 12:18 AM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
Jun 13, 1996, 12:18 AM EDT (04:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1996, 12:45 AM EDT
In force
27 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Allendale County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 295 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 841 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 1996-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
841 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1607 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 6:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSMcIntosh47 min
Jun 13, 6:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSMcIntosh13 hr
Jun 13, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham47 min
Jun 13, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSChatham49 min
Jun 13, 2:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort28 min
Jun 13, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort52 min
Jun 13, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort48 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.