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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 90, NWS Charleston, SC

May 15, 2006Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2006, 3:17 AM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 28 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: May 15, 2006, 3:17 AM EDT (07:17 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2006, 3:45 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Long County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2628 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 May 14, 11:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 11:55 PM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1155 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006

.SHORT TERM...A MAJOR SVR WX EVENT IS FINALLY COMING TO AN END
ACROSS SRN SC AND SE GA. A FEW STRONG TSTMS MAY BRUSH THE SRN SC
COAST OVR THE NXT FEW HRS...BUT THE RISK FOR WDSPRD SVR WX HAS
ENDED. WL UPDATE PRODUCTS SHORTLY TO REMOVE THE TORNADO WATCH.

NUMEROUS REPORTS OF LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND EVEN POSSIBLE
TORNADOES HAVE BEEN REPORTED THIS AFTN AND EVNG. WE ARE STILL
GATHERING REPORTS AND WL ISSUE LOCAL STORM REPORTS AS REPORTS ARE
SORTED AND/OR RECEIVED.

WE ASK THAT THE AUGUSTA...CHARLESTON AND SAVANNAH MEDIA PLEASE RELAY
ANY SVR WX REPORTS DIRECTLY TO US OR EMAIL THEM TO...
CHS.SKYWARN@NOAA.GOV.

&&

.CHS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
GA...NONE.
SC...NONE.
MARINE...NONE.

&&

ST

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 14, 11:14 PM EDT, 4 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 14, 11:29 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1129 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0938 PM     HAIL             2 SW HARDEEVILLE        32.27N 81.11W
05/14/2006  E0.88 INCH       JASPER             SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            REPORTED NEAR MILE MARKER 3 ON INTERSTATE 95. CAR WIND
            SHEILDS SHATTERED.

&&

Local storm report, May 14, 11:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 35 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1142 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0920 PM     HAIL             4 SSE RINCON            32.24N 81.21W
05/14/2006  E1.75 INCH       EFFINGHAM          GA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            NUMEROUS CAR WIND SHEILDS AND HOUSE WINDOWS BROKEN BY
            WIND DRIVEN HAIL.

&&

Special weather statement, May 15, 12:16 AM EDT, 3 hours 1 minute before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1216 AM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

SCZ050-150445-
CHARLESTON-
1216 AM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT CHARLESTON COUNTY THROUGH 1245 AM
EDT...

AT 1216 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CENTERED 5 MILES SOUTH OF MCCLELLANVILLE...MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AREAS IN AND
AROUND MCCLELLANVILLE AND SOUTH SANTEE THROUGH 1245 AM EDT.

HAIL UP TO ONE HALF INCH IN DIAMETER...EXCESSIVE CLOUD-TO-GROUND
LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH CAN BE EXPECTED.

Local storm report, May 15, 12:54 AM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1254 AM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0925 AM     HAIL             5 N PORT WENTWORTH      32.22N 81.18W
05/14/2006  E2.00 INCH       CHATHAM            GA   AMATEUR RADIO

            REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 21 AND
            PLANTATION ROAD.

&&

ST

Local storm report, May 15, 12:55 AM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1255 AM EDT MON MAY 15 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0925 PM     HAIL             5 N PORT WENTWORTH      32.22N 81.18W
05/14/2006  E2.00 INCH       CHATHAM            GA   AMATEUR RADIO

            REPORTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 21 AND
            PLANTATION ROAD.

&&

ST

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 9:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		118 min
May 14, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	22 min
May 14, 9:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham	31 min
May 14, 9:42 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		93 min
May 14, 9:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		89 min
May 14, 11:03 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		57 min
May 14, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	38 min
May 14, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		61 min
May 14, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		95 min
May 15, 3:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	36 min
May 15, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	McIntosh	26 min
May 15, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		39 min
May 14, 8:10 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston, Dorchester	65 min
May 14, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	55 min
May 14, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	29 min
May 14, 8:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Colleton	25 min
May 14, 8:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley	36 min
May 14, 9:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	29 min
May 14, 9:12 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	63 min
May 14, 9:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	42 min
May 14, 9:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	34 min
May 14, 10:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston	45 min
May 15, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton	28 min
May 15, 6:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Dorchester	27 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.