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Lake Wind Advisory 4, NWS Charleston, SC

January 26, 2011Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 26, 2011, 3:31 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 26, 2011, 12:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 26, 2011, 3:31 AM EST (08:31 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 26, 2011, 12:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 26, 2011, 9:48 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:31 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 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 463 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 261 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 325 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 lake wind 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jan 26, 1:18 AM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 26, 1:18 AM EST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 26, 3:25 AM EST, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 26, 12:31 AM EST, 3 hours 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
Jan 25, 7:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham, McIntosh	82 min
Jan 25, 10:43 PM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	9 hr
Jan 25, 10:43 PM EST	Marine Dense Fog Advisory	CHS		11 hr
Jan 26, 3:47 AM EST	Gale Warning	CHS		19 hr
Jan 26, 9:48 AM EST	Wind Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	9 hr
Jan 26, 6:59 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		9 hr
Jan 26, 6:56 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CHS	Berkeley	3 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2011 Every lake wind advisory in 2011

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.