Alert archive / South Carolina / Flood Watches in 2006
Flood Watch 2, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flood watch at Aug 30, 2006, 5:11 PM EDT for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 31, 2006, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 15 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 2006, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 31, 2006, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2006, 8:49 PM EDT
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 328 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 734 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 807 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 30, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 3:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 4:48 PM EDT | Inland Tropical Storm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 24 hr |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.