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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

May 14, 2011Candler County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 14, 2011, 5:49 PM 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: May 14, 2011, 5:49 PM EDT (21:49 UTC)
Expired: May 14, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Candler County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 200 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: 1023 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1115 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 May 14, 5:28 PM EDT, 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 14, 5:28 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 14, 4:59 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 14, 2:39 PM EDT, 3 hours 10 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
239 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

GAZ087-141915-
JENKINS-
239 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF JENKINS COUNTY
THROUGH 315 PM EDT...

AT 234 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HERNDON TO 15
MILES SOUTHWEST OF HERNDON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
HERNDON AND PERKINS...

PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...
DIME SIZE HAIL...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN CASE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION.

&&

LAT...LON 3287 8213 3292 8208 3292 8195 3295 8186
      3280 8197 3274 8212 3275 8213 3276 8212
      3279 8214 3280 8214 3280 8215 3283 8215
TIME...MOT...LOC 1839Z 245DEG 30KT 3291 8212 3272 8229

Special weather statement, May 14, 4:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
409 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

GAZ087-088-099-100-SCZ040-042-142130-
JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-
409 PM EDT SAT MAY 14 2011

...STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...

BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL GEORGIA WILL
CONTINUE TO MOVE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS
MAY IMPACT PORTIONS OF JENKINS...SCREVEN...CANDLER...BULLOCH...
ALLENDALE AND HAMPTON COUNTIES THROUGH 7 PM. CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH
DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. THE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
WILL BE GREATEST FROM MILLEN UP THROUGH HILLTONIA AND ALLENDALE.

PEOPLE ACROSS FAR INTERIOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH
CAROLINA SHOULD CAREFULLY MONITOR CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE
REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON HOURS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION
SHOULD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS BE NEEDED.

Special weather statement, May 14, 5:49 PM EDT, 0 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
May 14, 1:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		86 min
May 14, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		92 min
May 14, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	36 min
May 14, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		37 min
May 14, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	58 min
May 14, 5:21 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		3 hr
May 14, 6:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	23 min
May 14, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	34 min
May 14, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	36 min
May 13, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	57 min
May 13, 8:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	63 min
May 13, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	29 min
May 13, 9:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	44 min
May 13, 10:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	32 min
May 14, 11:02 AM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CHS		9 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2011 Every special weather statement 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.