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Lake Wind Advisory 18, NWS Charleston, SC

June 1, 2012Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jun 1, 2012, 3:59 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jun 1, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 1, 2012, 3:59 AM EDT (07:59 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 1, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jun 1, 2012, 3:41 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:01 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 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 410 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1190 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jun 1, 12:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 12:56 AM EDT, 3 hours 3 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
Jun 1, 2:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		30 min
Jun 1, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		40 min
Jun 1, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	36 min
Jun 1, 3:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	39 min
Jun 1, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	31 min
Jun 1, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	28 min
Jun 1, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	61 min
Jun 1, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	28 min
Jun 1, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	66 min
Jun 1, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	30 min
Jun 1, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	39 min
Jun 1, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	60 min
Jun 1, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	26 min
Jun 1, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	32 min
Jun 1, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	47 min
Jun 1, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	44 min
Jun 1, 7:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	46 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.