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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Charleston, SC

November 16, 2006Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2006, 12:47 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 16, 2006, 12:47 AM EST (05:47 UTC)
Expired: Nov 16, 2006, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Nov 15, 9:29 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 1039 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 582 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Nov 16, 12:24 AM EST, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 12:24 AM EST, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 16, 12:15 AM EST, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 15, 10:49 PM EST, 1 hour 58 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1049 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAZ088-SCZ040-160415-
ALLENDALE-SCREVEN-
1049 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SCREVEN COUNTY AND ALLENDALE
COUNTY THROUGH 1115 PM EST...

AT 1049 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CENTERED ALONG A LINE FROM
4 MILES WEST OF HILLTONIA TO 5 MILES WEST OF HALCYONDALE...OR FROM
12 MILES NORTHWEST OF SYLVANIA TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF STATESBORO...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

THIS CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND
AROUND...ALTMAN...CAPTOLO...HILLTONIA...HUNTERS...MILLHAVEN...
NEWINGTON...SYLVANIA...APPLETON...MARTIN AND MILLETT THROUGH 1115 PM
EST.

GUSTY WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED.

A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
TORNADOES SUDDENLY. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS
AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY.

Special weather statement, Nov 15, 10:56 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1056 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>051-161100-
JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS-
INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG-
INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH-
ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-BERKELEY-
INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MILLEN...SYLVANIA...METTER...
STATESBORO...SPRINGFIELD...REIDSVILLE...CLAXTON...PEMBROKE...
FORT MCALLISTER...SAVANNAH...TYBEE ISLAND...LUDOWICI...
HINESVILLE...HALFMOON LANDING...TOWNSEND...DARIEN...ALLENDALE...
HAMPTON...WALTERBORO...ST. GEORGE...SUMMERVILLE...MONCKS CORNER...
RIDGELAND...BEAUFORT...HILTON HEAD...EDISTO BEACH...CHARLESTON...
JASPER
1056 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006

...SEVERE WEATHER TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT AND EARLY
THURSDAY...

A STRONG STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE FROM THE TENNESSEE VALLEY INTO THE
EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS WILL
ALLOW A STRONG COLD FRONT TO PUSH THROUGH SOUTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA
AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA LATE TONIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY MORNING.

VERY STRONG WINDS JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE WILL PERSIST IN ADVANCE OF
THE COLD FRONT OVERNIGHT. AS THE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA
OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THURSDAY...A SQUALL LINE OF SHOWERS AND STRONGER
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT THE AREA. WIND FIELDS ARE QUITE SUPPORTIVE
OF SEVERE WEATHER...AND THE STRONGER CELLS THAT DEVELOP WILL ALLOW
THE STRONGER WINDS ALOFT TO MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE. ASIDE FROM THE
DAMAGING WIND HAZARD...STRONG LOW LEVEL WIND SHEAR WILL ALSO RESULT
IN A CHANCE FOR ISOLATED TORNADOES ACROSS THE AREA.

THE BEST CHANCE FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS FROM 11 PM TO 1 AM MIDNIGHT IN
SUCH LOCATIONS AS SAVANNAH...DARIEN...PEMBROKE AND HAMPTON...FROM 1
AM TO 2 AM IN WALTERBORO...JACKSONBORO...BEAUFORT AND SAINT
GEORGE...AND FROM 2 TO 4 AM IN CHARLESTON...SUMMERVILLE AND MONCKS
CORNER.

BECAUSE WINDS WILL BE SO STRONG JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE...INTENSE
RAIN SHOWERS PRODUCING ABSOLUTELY NO LIGHTNING WILL BE CAPABLE OF
PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS AT THE SURFACE AS WELL. THEREFORE...WIND
GUSTS GREATER THAN 58 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH LITTLE OR NO
WARNING...EVEN IN THE ABSENCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS SITUATION. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL
HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. BE SURE TO KEEP YOUR NOAA WEATHER
RADIO IN ALERT MODE AT ALL TIMES.

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Local storm report, Nov 15, 11:44 PM EST, 1 hour 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 15, 11:51 PM EST, 56 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 16, 12:38 AM EST, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Nov 16, 12:41 AM EST, 6 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
Nov 15, 10:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	33 min
Nov 15, 10:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jenkins	19 min
Nov 15, 11:00 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	30 min
Nov 15, 11:27 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	48 min
Nov 15, 11:36 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		114 min
Nov 16, 1:35 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		55 min
Nov 16, 8:24 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		66 min
Nov 16, 12:06 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	54 min
Nov 16, 12:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	65 min
Nov 16, 12:30 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	60 min
Nov 16, 12:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	51 min
Nov 16, 1:02 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	58 min
Nov 16, 1:29 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	46 min
Nov 16, 1:42 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	63 min
Nov 16, 1:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm 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.