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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

March 25, 2012Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 25, 2012, 1:49 PM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 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 25, 2012, 1:49 PM EDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:51 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 59 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 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 Mar 25, 1:29 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 25, 1:29 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 25, 4:49 AM EDT, 9 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
449 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012

AMZ352-354-374-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042-047-048-
051-260900-
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-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 JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL JASPER-
449 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL
WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

AMZ330-350-SCZ043>045-049-050-052-260900-
CHARLESTON HARBOR-
WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM-
INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY-COASTAL COLLETON-
CHARLESTON-TIDAL BERKELEY-
449 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND
SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE
CAROLINAS TODAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA
THIS AFTERNOON WHICH MAY PRODUCE SMALL HAIL. THERE IS A RELATIVELY
SMALL RISK THAT ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL AND LOCALIZED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. THE EXPECTED TIME FRAME
FOR THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE FROM 1 PM TO 8 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS UNLIKELY TODAY.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 25, 9:19 AM EDT, 4 hours 30 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
919 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0941 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 NNE STATESBORO        32.50N  81.76W
03/24/2012                   BULLOCH            GA   UTILITY COMPANY

            ONE TREE DOWN ALONG STILLWATER DRIVE.

0941 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 ESE MIDDLEGROUND      32.52N  81.76W
03/24/2012                   BULLOCH            GA   UTILITY COMPANY

            A COUPLE OF TREES REPORTED DOWN ALONG CLITO ROAD.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1200073
EVENT NUMBER CHS1200074

JHP

Local storm report, Mar 25, 9:53 AM EDT, 3 hours 56 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
953 AM EDT SUN MAR 25 2012

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0205 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 WNW JASPER            32.37N  80.99W
03/24/2012                   JASPER             SC   911 CALL CENTER

            ONE TREE REPORTED DOWN ALONG INTERSTATE 95 NEAR MILE
            MARKER 10. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1200075

JHP

Special weather statement, Mar 25, 1:49 PM EDT, 0 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
Mar 24, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	24 min
Mar 24, 9:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Screven	29 min
Mar 24, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Screven	53 min
Mar 24, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Effingham, Screven	57 min
Mar 24, 10:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	34 min
Mar 25, 12:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	32 min
Mar 25, 1:31 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		89 min
Mar 25, 12:39 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		5 hr
Mar 24, 10:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Orangeburg	30 min
Mar 24, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	22 min
Mar 24, 11:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	26 min
Mar 25, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	22 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement 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.