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Lake Wind Advisory 26, NWS Charleston, SC

December 29, 2012Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Dec 29, 2012, 3:43 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Dec 29, 2012, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 29, 2012, 3:43 AM EST (08:43 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 29, 2012, 11:00 AM EST
Expired
Dec 30, 2012, 6:52 AM EST
In force
20 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 08:46 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 320 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2012-12-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2012-12-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 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 Dec 28, 3:11 PM EST, 12 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 28, 3:11 PM EST, 12 hours 32 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 29, 5:44 PM ESTGale WarningCHS13 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2012Every lake wind advisory in 2012

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.