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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2008, 7:56 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 1, 2008, 7:56 PM EDT (23:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:59 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 1, 7:06 PM EDT, 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 7:06 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 4:58 AM EDT, 14 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 458 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008 AMZ330-350-GAZ087-088-SCZ040-042>045-049-050-021000- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-JENKINS- SCREVEN-ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-BERKELEY- COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON- 458 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THE COMBINATION OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN AND CENTRAL SOUTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING... POSSIBLY CONTINUING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS... ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD- TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THE COMBINATION OF A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY IS EXPECTED TO TRIGGER ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN SOUTH SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. AMZ352-354-374-GAZ099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ047-048-051-021000- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS-INLAND BRYAN- COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY- COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH-INLAND JASPER- BEAUFORT-COASTAL JASPER- 458 AM EDT SUN JUN 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THE COMBINATION OF A STRONG UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL ALLOW SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP NORTH OF THE AREA TODAY. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SHIFT SOUTHEAST INTO THE AREA THIS EVENING...AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK THAT SOME OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE. THE PRIMARY HAZARD WILL BE DAMAGING WINDS... ALTHOUGH LARGE HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. IN ADDITION...ANY THUNDERSTORM THAT DEVELOPS IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE FREQUENT CLOUD- TO-GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. STRONG/SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...THE COMBINATION OF A STALLED FRONTAL BOUNDARY AND UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER THE REGION ON MONDAY IS EXPECTED TO TRIGGER ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER PARTS OF SOUTHERN SOUTH SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME STRONG WITH GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO ACCOMPANY SOME OF THUNDERSTORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. JAQ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 1, 7:14 PM EDT, 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 39 min |
| Jun 1, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 45 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.