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Lake Wind Advisory 39, NWS Charleston, SC

December 1, 2006Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Dec 1, 2006, 3:37 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Dec 1, 2006, 5:53 AM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 1, 2006, 3:37 AM EST (08:37 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 1, 2006, 5:53 AM EST
Expired
Dec 1, 2006, 9:25 PM EST
In force
16 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:41 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, 8.6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-12-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 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, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2006-12-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
785 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 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
Nov 30, 10:20 PM ESTMarine Weather StatementCHS8 hr
Dec 1, 7:26 AM ESTMarine Weather StatementCHS3 hr
Dec 1, 5:47 PM ESTMarine Weather StatementCHS4 hr

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.