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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 9, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT for Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 59 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 9, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Effingham County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 957 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 723 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
004
WWUS82 KCHS 092001
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
401 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012
GAZ101-116-118-092100-
EFFINGHAM-INLAND BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-
401 PM EDT THU AUG 9 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF EFFINGHAM...BRYAN AND
CHATHAM COUNTIES THROUGH 500 PM EDT...
AT 356 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE METEOROLOGISTS DETECTED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR MELDRIM...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
BLITCHTON...BLOOMINGDALE...EDEN...GUYTON...MARLOW...MEINHARD...
MELDRIM...PINEORA...POOLER AND RINCON...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...
PENNY SIZE HAIL...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. IF
OUTDOORS...STAY AWAY FROM ISOLATED TALL OBJECTS. IF INDOORS...STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND DOORS. AVOID USING PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL
APPLIANCES UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY.
BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AS STORMS APPROACH.
BE READY TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION IN CASE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING IS ISSUED FOR YOUR LOCATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3241 8148 3232 8113 3205 8127 3211 8146
3223 8147 3224 8143 3226 8143 3228 8145
3231 8145 3233 8147
TIME...MOT...LOC 2001Z 192DEG 13KT 3214 8134
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Tattnall | 70 min |
| Aug 9, 6:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall | 59 min |
| Aug 9, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Screven | 57 min |
| Aug 9, 6:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty, McIntosh | 67 min |
| Aug 9, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 50 min |
| Aug 9, 7:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 44 min |
| Aug 9, 7:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton | 47 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.