Alert archive / South Carolina / Flood Watches in 2006
Flood Watch 3, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flood watch at Nov 7, 2006, 3:54 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 7, 2006, 3:54 AM EST (08:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 7, 2006, 1:09 PM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Flood severity
- None
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 7, 7:44 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 91 min | |
| Nov 7, 8:09 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 96 min | |
| Nov 7, 8:58 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 47 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.