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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2009, 2:45 AM EDT for 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 34 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
- Apr 2, 2009, 2:45 AM EDT (06:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2009, 3:19 AM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Bulloch County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 279 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -149 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 Apr 2, 1:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 1:36 AM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 1, 11:16 PM EDT | Marine Dense Fog Advisory | CHS | 5 hr | |
| Apr 2, 3:55 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CHS | 40 hr | |
| Apr 2, 9:46 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Burke, Emanuel, Jenkins | 9 days |
| Apr 2, 11:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 65 min | |
| Apr 2, 1:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins and 4 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 1:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Jenkins, Screven | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 3 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:43 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Evans | 6 days |
| Apr 2, 4:32 PM EDT | Gale Warning | CHS | 11 hr | |
| Apr 2, 11:46 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 89 min |
| Apr 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 90 min |
| Apr 2, 4:11 PM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley | 28 hr |
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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.