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Flood Watch 1, NWS Charleston, SC

June 13, 20068 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this flood watch at Jun 13, 2006, 6:38 AM EDT for 8 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Jun 13, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 13, 2006, 6:38 AM EDT (10:38 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 13, 2006, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 14, 2006, 5:07 AM EDT
In force: 17 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Flood severity: None

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Long County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 14 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Jun 12, 5:55 PM EDT, 12 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 12, 5:55 PM EDT, 12 hours 43 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 6:14 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	23 hr
Jun 13, 11:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		60 min
Jun 13, 12:05 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Chatham	25 min
Jun 13, 3:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		26 min
Jun 13, 3:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Tattnall	46 min
Jun 13, 4:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Effingham	42 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	46 min
Jun 13, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		95 min
Jun 13, 5:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	38 min
Jun 13, 1:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jasper	26 min
Jun 13, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Beaufort	41 min
Jun 13, 6:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	43 min
Jun 13, 6:44 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jasper	46 min
Jun 13, 6:56 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Allendale	34 min
Jun 13, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	26 min
Jun 13, 7:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	61 min

Nearby

Flood Watches in Georgia, 2006 Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2006 Every flood watch in 2006

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.