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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Charleston, SC

June 15, 2010Liberty County, Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 4:22 PM EDT for Liberty County, Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 53 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 15, 2010, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2010, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 3097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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 14, 7:31 PM EDT, 20 hours 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 7:31 PM EDT, 20 hours 51 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 14, 9:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		65 min
Jun 15, 2:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	59 min
Jun 15, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	McIntosh	40 min
Jun 15, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham	24 min
Jun 15, 2:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		54 min
Jun 15, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Liberty	35 min
Jun 15, 3:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	56 min
Jun 15, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	53 min
Jun 15, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch	63 min
Jun 15, 5:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	53 min
Jun 15, 5:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Long	33 min
Jun 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins	55 min
Jun 15, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham, Screven	54 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven	64 min
Jun 15, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bulloch	57 min
Jun 14, 10:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	43 min
Jun 15, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	47 min
Jun 15, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	55 min
Jun 15, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	57 min
Jun 15, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton	54 min
Jun 15, 3:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	37 min
Jun 15, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	65 min
Jun 15, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	59 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2010 Every 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.