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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

July 29, 2012Bulloch County, Candler County, Evans County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 29, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT for Bulloch County, Candler County, Evans County, Georgia. It was in force for 45 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: Jul 29, 2012, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
Expired: Jul 29, 2012, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Evans County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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 188 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: 2597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 738 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 38 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 Jul 29, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 29, 7:43 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 29, 7:13 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 29, 6:48 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 6:49 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:08 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:35 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 29, 7:45 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
Jul 28, 9:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		54 min
Jul 29, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	37 min
Jul 29, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Evans	33 min
Jul 29, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler	56 min
Jul 29, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	24 min
Jul 29, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jul 29, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	63 min
Jul 29, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Long	28 min
Jul 29, 3:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Chatham, Effingham	53 min
Jul 29, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall	60 min
Jul 29, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jul 29, 4:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Chatham	19 min
Jul 29, 4:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	53 min
Jul 29, 4:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh	54 min
Jul 29, 5:13 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jul 29, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	44 min
Jul 29, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	57 min
Jul 29, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jul 29, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	44 min
Jul 29, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	39 min
Jul 29, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Liberty	26 min
Jul 29, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		94 min
Jul 29, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	25 min
Jul 29, 7:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		48 min
Jul 29, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	52 min
Jul 29, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton	67 min
Jul 29, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Jasper	58 min
Jul 29, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	44 min
Jul 29, 3:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	54 min
Jul 29, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	66 min
Jul 29, 3:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Colleton	61 min
Jul 29, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper	62 min
Jul 29, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	63 min
Jul 29, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	38 min
Jul 29, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	24 min
Jul 29, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort	29 min
Jul 29, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	37 min
Jul 29, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	27 min
Jul 29, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	33 min
Jul 29, 6:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	51 min
Jul 29, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	52 min
Jul 29, 7:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	36 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.