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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 9:36 AM EDT for Bryan County, Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 39 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
- May 29, 2012, 9:36 AM EDT (13:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 10:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
Counties Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:36 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 8 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 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 May 29, 7:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 7:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 420 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>116-118-137-138-140-SCZ040-042>045-047-052- 300830- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-TIDAL BERKELEY- 420 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. GAZ117-119-139-141-SCZ048>051-300830- COASTAL BRYAN-COASTAL CHATHAM-COASTAL LIBERTY-COASTAL MCINTOSH- BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- 420 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... ...MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. MODERATE RISK FOR RIP CURRENTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. AMZ350-352-354-374-300830- 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- 420 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 29, 3:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 62 min | |
| May 29, 6:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham, Jenkins, Screven | 46 min |
| May 29, 6:51 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 54 min | |
| May 29, 10:14 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch | 31 min |
| May 29, 10:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 38 min |
| May 29, 10:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven | 50 min |
| May 29, 11:34 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 116 min | |
| May 29, 11:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Screven | 53 min |
| May 29, 12:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 27 min |
| May 29, 12:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven | 32 min |
| May 29, 12:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 48 min |
| May 29, 12:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 48 min | |
| May 29, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| May 29, 6:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Jenkins, Screven | 3 hr |
| May 29, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 50 min |
| May 29, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton, Jasper | 22 min |
| May 29, 3:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 12 hr |
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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.