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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 16, 2012, 7:47 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 58 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
- Mar 16, 2012, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2012, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Chatham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 473 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -95 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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 Mar 16, 7:44 PM EDT, 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 7:44 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 726 AM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 AMZ330-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052- 171130- CHARLESTON HARBOR-JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL- EVANS-INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- TIDAL BERKELEY- 726 AM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS MUCH OF SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AWAY FROM THE COAST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF QUARTERS OR LARGER. THE RISK FOR ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST BETWEEN 3 PM AND 10 PM FOR AREAS ROUGHLY ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM JAMESTOWN TO WALTERBORO AND HAMPTON IN SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND FROM NEWINGTON TO STATESBORO AND METTER ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. THIS INCLUDES THE COMMUNITIES OF MILLEN... SYLVANIA...WILLAIMS...SAINT GEORGE AND MONCKS CORNER. PEOPLE ACROSS SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE DAY. BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH OR IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ350-352-354-374-171130- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 726 AM EDT FRI MAR 16 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Mar 16, 6:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 37 min |
| Mar 16, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 36 min |
| Mar 16, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 40 min |
| Mar 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 35 min |
| Mar 16, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 41 min |
| Mar 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham, Screven | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 5:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 67 min |
| Mar 16, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 86 min | |
| Mar 16, 3:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 34 min |
| Mar 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 30 min |
| Mar 16, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton | 24 min |
| Mar 16, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Dorchester | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 68 min |
| Mar 16, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton, Jasper | 65 min |
| Mar 16, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bamberg | 26 min |
| Mar 16, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 63 min |
| Mar 16, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 64 min |
| Mar 16, 5:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton | 59 min |
| Mar 16, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 55 min |
| Mar 16, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 60 min |
| Mar 16, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 28 min |
| Mar 16, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 42 min |
| Mar 16, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 31 min |
| Mar 16, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 47 min |
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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.