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Heat Advisory 5, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this heat advisory at Jun 23, 2011, 3:23 AM EDT for Berkeley County, Colleton County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jun 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 23, 2011, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 23, 2011, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 23, 2011, 6:06 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:26 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 235 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1673 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jun 23, 1:44 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:44 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 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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| Jun 23, 9:31 AM EDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | CHS | 3 hr | |
| Jun 23, 9:33 AM EDT | Marine Dense Smoke Advisory | CHS | 3 hr | |
| Jun 23, 9:33 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CHS | 10 hr | |
| Jun 23, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 37 min | |
| Jun 23, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 34 min |
| Jun 23, 4:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 58 min |
| Jun 23, 4:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 84 min | |
| Jun 23, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Tattnall | 64 min |
| Jun 23, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 5:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 63 min |
| Jun 23, 6:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 32 min |
| Jun 23, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 66 min | |
| Jun 23, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 41 min | |
| Jun 23, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 7:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Jun 23, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 26 min |
| Jun 23, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 23 min |
| Jun 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 36 min |
| Jun 23, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 40 min |
| Jun 23, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Jasper | 65 min |
| Jun 23, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper | 59 min |
| Jun 23, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 25 min |
| Jun 23, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 45 min |
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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.