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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 19, 2012, 10:50 AM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 40 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 19, 2012, 10:50 AM EDT (14:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 311 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
- 1897 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
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 Aug 19, 10:45 AM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 10:45 AM EDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 1049 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012 AMZ330-350-352-354-GAZ101-116>119-137>141-SCZ042>045-047>052-201500- CHARLESTON HARBOR- 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-EFFINGHAM-INLAND BRYAN- COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY- COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH-HAMPTON- INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY-INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT- COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER-TIDAL BERKELEY- 1049 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 585 IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GAZ087-088-099-100-114-115-SCZ040-201500- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-TATTNALL-EVANS-ALLENDALE- 1049 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. AMZ374-201500- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 1049 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE GEORGIA OFFSHORE WATERS THIS AFTERNOON. REMAIN ALERT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
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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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| Aug 19, 9:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 48 min |
| Aug 19, 10:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Jenkins, Screven | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 10:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham, Evans | 66 min |
| Aug 19, 11:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 12:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 42 min |
| Aug 19, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 86 min | |
| Aug 19, 1:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 93 min | |
| Aug 19, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Wayne | 36 min |
| Aug 19, 11:30 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Dorchester | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 11:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 38 min |
| Aug 19, 12:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 37 min |
| Aug 19, 12:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 1:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 29 min |
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Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
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.