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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT for Candler County, Georgia. It was in force for 24 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
- Jun 26, 2011, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2011, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Candler County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 203 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
- 701 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 2 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
130
WWUS82 KCHS 261921
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
321 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2011
GAZ099-114-115-261945-
CANDLER-EVANS-TATTNALL-
321 PM EDT SUN JUN 26 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF TATTNALL...EVANS AND
CANDLER COUNTIES THROUGH 345 PM EDT...
AT 319 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR METTER...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
ALINE...COBBTOWN...METTER AND PULASKI...
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 3243 8219 3247 8219 3252 8216 3256 8207
3252 8198 3247 8197 3241 8192 3229 8195
3223 8202 3220 8220 3236 8225
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 343DEG 5KT 3238 8205
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 8:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Evans | 57 min |
| Jun 26, 4:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 30 min |
| Jun 26, 5:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 6:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Tattnall | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 6:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch | 36 min |
| Jun 26, 3:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 28 min |
| Jun 26, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 24 min |
| Jun 26, 5:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 23 min |
| Jun 26, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 24 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.