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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 245, NWS Charleston, SC

July 7, 2008Bulloch County, Candler County, Jenkins County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 2008, 7:08 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Candler County, Jenkins County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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
Jul 7, 2008, 7:08 PM EDT (23:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2008, 7:44 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Jenkins County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 185 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1256 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2008-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 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
1256 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
726 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.6

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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 Jul 7, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 5:59 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 7, 8:14 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCHSBeaufort, Charleston, Colleton61 min
Jul 7, 8:34 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningCHSBeaufort, Charleston, Colleton116 min
Jul 7, 9:07 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS83 min
Jul 7, 9:46 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS59 min
Jul 7, 10:39 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS96 min
Jul 7, 11:22 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS53 min
Jul 7, 11:58 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS103 min
Jul 7, 12:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS94 min
Jul 7, 1:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort, Jasper27 min
Jul 7, 1:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryCHSBeaufort, Jasper59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 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.