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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 20, NWS Charleston, SC

May 24, 1988Beaufort County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1988, 7:47 PM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1988, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1988, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Beaufort 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

Jacksonville, FL (KAYS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 228 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 1988-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 123 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 1988-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 33 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
123 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-301 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 11:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSDorchester56 min
May 24, 12:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley67 min
May 24, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSColleton56 min
May 24, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort26 min
May 24, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSCharleston61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.