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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

May 26, 2011Bryan County, Liberty County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 26, 2011, 10:49 PM EDT for Bryan County, Liberty 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 26, 2011, 10:49 PM EDT (02:49 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2011, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bryan County, GA, Liberty County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 383 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -294 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 26, 10:23 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 26, 10:23 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 26, 3:54 AM EDT, 18 hours 55 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 26, 8:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:22 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 10:49 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 26, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	27 min
May 26, 9:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall	59 min
May 26, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven	66 min
May 26, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Long	23 min
May 26, 10:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	62 min
May 26, 10:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven	66 min
May 27, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham	33 min
May 27, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty, McIntosh	66 min
May 27, 5:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	26 min
May 27, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	35 min
May 27, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Evans	31 min
May 27, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	23 min
May 27, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Long, Tattnall	60 min
May 26, 11:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	27 min
May 27, 12:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	64 min
May 27, 11:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	28 min
May 27, 11:51 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	39 min
May 27, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	47 min
May 27, 12:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley	24 min
May 27, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	29 min
May 27, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	26 min
May 27, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	52 min
May 27, 2:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	45 min
May 27, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	66 min
May 27, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	47 min
May 27, 3:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	37 min
May 27, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	23 min
May 27, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	49 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.