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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Charleston, SC

May 6, 1996Charleston County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 1996, 10:09 PM EDT for Charleston County, South Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
May 6, 1996, 10:09 PM EDT (02:09 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Whole counties

County Charleston County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 362 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1112 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1996-05-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -18 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
1112 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-43 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1050 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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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 7, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBulloch, Effingham69 min
May 6, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBerkeley, Dorchester73 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.