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Heat Advisory 23, NWS Charleston, SC

August 8, 20118 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this heat advisory at Aug 8, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT for 8 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 9, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 8, 2011, 3:25 PM EDT (19:25 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 9, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 9, 2011, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Long County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 1745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1201 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this heat advisory 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 heat advisory went out at Aug 8, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 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
Aug 8, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	35 min
Aug 8, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham	58 min
Aug 8, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	47 min
Aug 8, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham, Effingham	60 min
Aug 8, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty	60 min
Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty	64 min
Aug 8, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty, Long	64 min
Aug 8, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Screven	35 min
Aug 8, 7:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Chatham	118 min
Aug 8, 7:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty	42 min
Aug 8, 7:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Chatham	24 min
Aug 8, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		119 min
Aug 8, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty	64 min
Aug 8, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	40 min
Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	50 min
Aug 8, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	33 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.