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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 4:11 PM EDT for Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 34 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 7, 2012, 4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Effingham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
680
WWUS82 KCHS 072011
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
411 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
GAZ101-116-118-072045-
EFFINGHAM-INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-
411 PM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF EFFINGHAM...BRYAN AND
CHATHAM COUNTIES THROUGH 445 PM EDT...
AT 410 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR FAULKVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BLITCHTON...BLOOMINGDALE...EDEN...MEINHARD...MELDRIM...MONTEITH...
POOLER AND RINCON...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 45 MPH...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
THIS THUNDERSTORM IS 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 3235 8120 3225 8115 3224 8115 3223 8114
3222 8114 3219 8111 3217 8113 3204 8143
3219 8152
TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 240DEG 7KT 3216 8134
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 2:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 3:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Evans | 29 min |
| Aug 7, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 28 min |
| Aug 7, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 4:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Screven | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 54 min |
| Aug 7, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 63 min |
| Aug 7, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 2:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Charleston | 33 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.