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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 75, NWS Columbia, SC

July 6, 1999Orangeburg County, South Carolina

NWS Columbia, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1999, 1:25 PM EDT for Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 65 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
Jul 6, 1999, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1999, 2:30 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Columbia, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Orangeburg County, SC

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 6, 1:30 PM EDTHail 1.75Bowman, SCEOC reported golfball size hail damaged windshields of vehicles near hwys 301 and 176.

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 338 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 99 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1999-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 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
99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1289 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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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.

NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 6, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:50 AM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEAiken57 min
Jul 6, 1:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAEBarnwell55 min
Jul 6, 2:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAELexington65 min
Jul 6, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAERichmond57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.