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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 272, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2008, 3:36 PM EDT for Hampton County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 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 28, 2008, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2008, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 1898 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 923 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 28, 1:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 28, 1:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 28, 3:54 AM EDT, 11 hours 42 minutes before
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
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 1:14 PM EDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 307 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 SCZ045-281945- BERKELEY- 307 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WESTERN BERKELEY COUNTY THROUGH 345 PM EDT... AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR MURRAYSVILLE...OR ABOUT OVER MONCKS CORNER...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. AREAS IN AND AROUND MONCKS CORNER AND SANGAREE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 345 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:10 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 310 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 SCZ042-043-282000- HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON- 310 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL COLLETON AND EAST CENTRAL HAMPTON COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 305 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR FECHTIG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF YEMASSEE. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. AREAS IN AND AROUND ALMEDA...CROCKETVILLE...CUMMINGS...EARLY BRANCH...HAMPTON...HENDERSONVILLE...ISLANDTON...MCPHERSONVILLE AND VARNVILLE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 400 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
Special weather statement, Jul 28, 3:12 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 312 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 GAZ100-115-116-282000- BULLOCH-EVANS-INLAND BRYAN- 312 PM EDT MON JUL 28 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT NORTHWESTERN BRYAN...SOUTH CENTRAL BULLOCH AND EASTERN EVANS COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 310 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GROVELAND...OR ABOUT 8 MILES EAST OF CLAXTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 3 MPH. AREAS IN AND AROUND DAISY...GROVELAND AND PEMBROKE WILL BE IMPACTED THROUGH 400 PM EDT. FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED HIGH OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING TELEPHONES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. THIS THUNDERSTORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. AVOID FLOOD PRONE AREAS AND DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. PLEASE CONTACT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON TOLL FREE AT 1-888-383-2024 IF YOU OBSERVE SEVERE WEATHER SUCH AS HAIL...DOWNED TREES...LIMBS AND POWER LINES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:53 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CHS | 14 hr | |
| Jul 28, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 27 min |
| Jul 28, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 4:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Jasper | 43 min |
| Jul 28, 5:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Jasper | 38 min |
| Jul 28, 3:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bulloch | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 5:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 83 min |
| Jul 28, 7:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Long | 76 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.