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Dense Smoke Advisory 7, NWS Charleston, SC

June 14, 2011Effingham County, Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this dense smoke advisory at Jun 14, 2011, 2:09 AM EDT for Effingham County, Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 2011, 2:09 AM EDT (06:09 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 2011, 6:02 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Effingham County, GA, Long County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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

Jacksonville, FL (KNIP), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Jacksonville, FL at 00:00Z on 2011-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
566 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSMcIntosh28 min
Jun 14, 2:13 AM EDTMarine Dense Smoke AdvisoryCHS4 hr
Jun 14, 3:53 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS46 min
Jun 14, 4:17 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCHS6 hr
Jun 14, 1:08 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSBerkeley22 min

Nearby

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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.