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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 1996Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 7:24 PM EST for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 66 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: Mar 16, 1996, 7:24 PM EST (00:24 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 1996, 8:30 PM EST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Whole counties

County Hampton County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 7.5

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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, Mar 16, 7:18 PM EST, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
718 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0710 PM    SYLVANIA                  GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   SCREVEN                        TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF...NO REPORTS
                                          AVAILABLE ON DAMAGE OR
                                          INJURIES.

Local storm report, Mar 16, 7:20 PM EST, 4 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA
718 PM EST SAT MAR 16 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 0710 PM    SYLVANIA                  GA   TORNADO
03/16/96   SCREVEN                        TORNADO REPORTED BY
                                          SHERIFF...NO REPORTS
                                          AVAILABLE ON DAMAGE OR
   R                                       INJURIES.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 16, 7:33 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	57 min
Mar 16, 8:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	59 min
Mar 17, 9:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	50 min
Mar 17, 9:20 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	40 min
Mar 17, 9:45 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	45 min
Mar 17, 10:14 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	61 min
Mar 17, 10:28 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	62 min
Mar 17, 11:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	54 min
Mar 17, 11:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	65 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.