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Heat Advisory 4, NWS Charleston, SC

August 5, 20078 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this heat advisory at Aug 5, 2007, 4:13 PM EDT for 8 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 6, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 5, 2007, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
In effect from
Aug 6, 2007, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Aug 6, 2007, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

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

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 304 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 120 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.