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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 30, 2011, 7:19 AM EDT for Candler County, Georgia. It was in force for 26 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2011, 7:19 AM EDT (11:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2011, 7:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Candler County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:22 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 214 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 154 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 30, 7:02 AM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 30, 7:02 AM EDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 423 AM EDT WED MAR 30 2011 AMZ330-350-352-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-SCZ040-042>045-047>052- 310000- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM-JENKINS-SCREVEN- CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS-INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN- INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON- DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY-INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON- CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER-TIDAL BERKELEY- 423 AM EDT WED MAR 30 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ354-374-GAZ137>141-310000- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH- COASTAL MCINTOSH- 423 AM EDT WED MAR 30 2011 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE TODAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...WIDESPREAD RAIN WITH SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHEAST GEORGIA TODAY. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE ACROSS PORTIONS OF LONG...LIBERTY AND MCINTOSH COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON WITH A RISK FOR DAMAGING WINDS AND POSSIBLY TORNADOES. A WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER EVENT APPEARS UNLIKELY AT THIS TIME. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST FORECAST FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Mar 30, 7:19 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 30, 7:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 36 min |
| Mar 30, 8:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 8:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch | 32 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 42 min |
| Mar 30, 8:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 27 min |
| Mar 30, 9:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven | 64 min |
| Mar 30, 10:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 10:34 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan, Effingham | 26 min |
| Mar 30, 12:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr |
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.