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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Charleston, SC

June 1, 1986Berkeley County, Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 1986, 5:07 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 43 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 1986, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 1986, 5:50 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 10 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1986-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1682 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1986-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1682 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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

Special weather statement, Jun 1, 4:43 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON, SC
440 PM EDT SUN JUN 01 1986

A VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE CHARLESTON
AIRPORT EXTENDING FROM JUST NORTH OF SUMMERVILLE ACROSS TO GOOSE
CREEK. THERE HAS BEEN PEA SIZE HAIL REPORTED AS WELL AS VERY HEAVY
DOWNPOURS. PERSONS IN THIS AREA IS ADVISED TO BE ALERT FOR LOCALIZED
FLOODING CAUSED BY THESE HEAVY RAINFALLS AND FOR LIGHTNING.

RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN SOUTHERN
SOUTH CAROLINA AND EASTERN GEORGIA.

ALL OF THESE STORMS WERE NEARLY STATIONARY OR DRIFTING SLOWLY SOUTH
WARD.

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

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.