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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 123, NWS Charleston, SC

October 5, 2005Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 5, 2005, 9:43 PM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 62 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
Oct 5, 2005, 9:43 PM EDT (01:43 UTC)
Expired
Oct 5, 2005, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Long County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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 00:00Z on 2005-10-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 350 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 00:00Z on 2005-10-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 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
350 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
548 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.4

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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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Oct 5, 9:08 PM EDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 5, 9:08 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 5, 9:35 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 5, 7:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
751 PM EDT WED OCT 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 PM     TROPICAL STORM   WADMALAW ISLAND         32.68N 80.17W
10/05/2005                   CHARLESTON         SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON WADMALAW ISLAND.

0745 PM     TROPICAL STORM   EDISTO ISLAND           32.56N 80.28W
10/05/2005                   CHARLESTON         SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN ON EDISTO ISLAND.

0750 PM     TROPICAL STORM   HILTON HEAD ISLAND      32.22N 80.75W
10/05/2005                   BEAUFORT           SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            NUMEROUS TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE ISLAND.

&&
Local storm report, Oct 5, 8:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
822 PM EDT WED OCT 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0750 PM     TROPICAL STORM   SAVANNAH                32.08N 81.10W
10/05/2005                   CHATHAM            GA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWERLINES LINE THROUGHOUT MANY PORTIONS OF THE
            COUNTY.

&&
Local storm report, Oct 5, 8:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
825 PM EDT WED OCT 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0750 PM     TROPICAL STORM   SAVANNAH                32.08N 81.10W
10/05/2005                   CHATHAM            GA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES AND POWERLINES BLOWN DOWN THROUGHOUT MANY PORTIONS
            OF THE COUNTY.

&&
Local storm report, Oct 5, 8:59 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
859 PM EDT WED OCT 05 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0850 PM     FLASH FLOOD      DARIEN                  31.37N 81.43W
10/05/2005                   MCINTOSH           GA   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            EXTREMELY HEAVY RAIN FALLING THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.
            SECONDARY ROADS ARE BECOMING FLOODED.

&&
Local storm report, Oct 5, 9:33 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
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Local storm report, Oct 5, 9:40 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 5, 8:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHSBryan, Chatham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh6 hr
Oct 5, 9:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHSBeaufort, Jasper6 hr
Oct 6, 2:08 PM EDTTornado WarningCHSColleton29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.