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Freeze Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC

March 4, 20065 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this freeze warning at Mar 4, 2006, 3:34 PM EST for 5 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Mar 5, 2006, 2:00 AM EST. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 4, 2006, 3:34 PM EST (20:34 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 5, 2006, 2:00 AM EST
Expired
Mar 5, 2006, 8:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

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

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 115 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-03-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2006-03-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -96 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1966 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 4, 4:17 AM ESTFreeze WatchCHSBulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, Screven28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in Georgia, 2006Freeze Warnings in South Carolina, 2006Every freeze warning 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.