Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 4:03 PM EDT for Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 6, 2012, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
Counties Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 2331 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 445 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
779
WWUS82 KCHS 062003
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
403 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
GAZ087-088-100-062030-
BULLOCH-JENKINS-SCREVEN-
403 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SCREVEN...JENKINS AND
BULLOCH COUNTIES THROUGH 430 PM EDT...
AT 400 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM GWINETTS CROSSING
TO FOUR POINTS...MOVING NORTH AT 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
ALTMAN...BUTTS...CAPTOLO...DOVER...EMMALANE...HERNDON...HOPEULIKIT...
HUNTERS...MIDDLEGROUND...MILLEN...PORTAL...ROCKY FORD...SCARBORO...
SYLVANIA AND WOODCLIFF...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN...WHICH
MAY FLOOD DITCHES AND LOW-LYING AREAS. REDUCE VEHICLE SPEED TO LOWER
THE RISK OF HYDROPLANING. DO NOT DRIVE INTO PLACES WHERE WATER
COVERS THE ROAD. SEEK AN ALTERNATE ROUTE.
&&
LAT...LON 3288 8213 3288 8209 3273 8152 3241 8157
3255 8203 3261 8201 3266 8209 3280 8215
3284 8215
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 198DEG 10KT 3250 8158 3263 8196
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 83 min |
| Aug 6, 2:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 55 min |
Nearby
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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.