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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

July 26, 2011McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 26, 2011, 4:49 PM EDT for McIntosh 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: Jul 26, 2011, 4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County McIntosh County, GA

The radar

The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 2222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 576 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -116 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 Jul 25, 7:30 PM EDT, 21 hours 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 7:30 PM EDT, 21 hours 19 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
Jul 26, 1:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		93 min
Jul 26, 9:38 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall	52 min
Jul 26, 11:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Screven	2 hr
Jul 26, 1:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Effingham, Screven	2 hr
Jul 26, 3:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Effingham	66 min
Jul 26, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		97 min
Jul 26, 4:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	37 min
Jul 26, 5:20 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		74 min
Jul 26, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		54 min
Jul 26, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		89 min
Jul 26, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Long, Tattnall	88 min
Jul 26, 7:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		115 min
Jul 26, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		50 min
Jul 26, 1:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	34 min
Jul 26, 2:14 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	2 hr
Jul 26, 11:23 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Hampton	112 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.