Alert archive / Georgia / Flood Watches in 2008
Flood Watch 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flood watch at Mar 7, 2008, 4:33 AM EST for 5 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 7, 2008, 4:33 AM EST (09:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2008, 8:08 PM EST
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Flood severity
- None
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 09:37 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 00:00Z, 9.6 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3060 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flood watch 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 flood watch went out at Mar 7, 3:45 AM EST, 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:45 AM EST, 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 4:33 AM EST | High Wind Watch | CHS | Berkeley | 12 hr |
| Mar 7, 7:45 AM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 min | |
| Mar 7, 12:10 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 83 min | |
| Mar 7, 12:33 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 57 min | |
| Mar 7, 12:49 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 116 min | |
| Mar 7, 1:02 PM EST | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 44 min | |
| Mar 7, 1:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 50 min |
| Mar 7, 4:13 PM EST | Wind Advisory | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 27 hr |
| Mar 7, 10:30 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Long, McIntosh | 60 min |
| Mar 7, 10:36 AM EST | Tornado Warning | CHS | Chatham | 39 min |
| Mar 7, 11:55 AM EST | River Flood Warning | CHS | Bryan, Effingham | 11 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Georgia, 2008Flood Watches in South Carolina, 2008Every flood watch in 2008
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.