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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2010, 7:57 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 48 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 5, 2010, 7:57 PM EDT (23:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2010, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Hampton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:57 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 128 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
- 1670 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 728 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
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 5, 7:55 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 7:55 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 420 AM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-060900- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- TIDAL BERKELEY- 420 AM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. EXCESSIVE HEAT...HOT AND HUMID CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY. HEAT INDICES EXCEEDING 100 DEGREES WILL OCCUR IN THE AFTERNOON AND THERE IS A CHANCE THAT VALUES COULD REACH ADVISORY LEVELS OF 105 DEGREES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-060900- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- 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- 420 AM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:40 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 640 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 GAZ087-088-099>101-SCZ040-042>044-047-060000- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-ALLENDALE-HAMPTON- INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND JASPER- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...MILLEN...SYLVANIA...METTER... STATESBORO...SPRINGFIELD...ALLENDALE...HAMPTON...WALTERBORO... ST. GEORGE...SUMMERVILLE...RIDGELAND 640 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS EVENING... A LARGE CLUSTER OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL MOVE INTO INTERIOR AREAS OF FAR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THERE IS ALSO A POTENTIAL FOR AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM TO DEVELOP WITH DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND HAIL TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. THE RISK FOR AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST NORTH OF A LINE FROM METTER TO NEWINGTON...NIXVILLE...WALTERBORO AND SAINT GEORGE. THIS INCLUDES COMMUNITIES SUCH AS MILLEN... SYLVANIA...ALLENDALE...HAMPTON...SMOAKS AND REEVESVILLE. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA SOURCE FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. &&
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 6:45 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 645 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 GAZ100-101-116-118-052315- BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM- 645 PM EDT SAT JUN 5 2010 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF EFFINGHAM... BULLOCH...BRYAN AND CHATHAM COUNTIES THROUGH 715 PM EDT... AT 641 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR BAY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE... BAY...BLITCHTON...EDEN...ELLABELL...GUYTON...LANIER...MARLOW... MELDRIM AND PINEORA... PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS... STRONG WINDS OF 45 TO 55 MPH... DIME SIZE HAIL... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... HAVE AN ACTION PLAN READY IN THE EVENT THIS STORM STRENGTHENS OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. CONTINUE TO MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. && LAT...LON 3242 8142 3217 8121 3211 8154 3223 8163 TIME...MOT...LOC 2246Z 246DEG 22KT 3220 8152
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 7:21 PM EDT, 36 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 4, 8:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 36 min |
| Jun 4, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 12:37 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 49 min | |
| Jun 5, 2:18 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 117 min | |
| Jun 5, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 96 min | |
| Jun 5, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Long | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 5:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 27 min |
| Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 44 min | |
| Jun 5, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 36 min |
| Jun 5, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 59 min | |
| Jun 5, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 30 min |
| Jun 5, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 29 min |
| Jun 5, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 24 min |
| Jun 5, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 26 min |
| Jun 5, 2:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 23 min |
| Jun 5, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 33 min |
| Jun 5, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 25 min |
| Jun 5, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 50 min |
| Jun 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 32 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2010Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010
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.