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Lake Wind Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, SC

January 31, 2013Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Jan 31, 2013, 12:57 AM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Jan 31, 2013, 2:55 AM EST. It was in force for 36 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 31, 2013, 12:57 AM EST (05:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2013, 2:55 AM EST
Expired: Feb 1, 2013, 3:19 PM EST
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:57 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 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 33 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: 72 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 760 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jan 30, 11:06 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 11:06 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 30, 9:24 PM EST, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
924 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0841 PM     TSTM WND DMG     3 ESE METTER            32.38N  82.01W
01/30/2013                   CANDLER            GA   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN ON LAKE CHURCH ROAD.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300007

BDC

Local storm report, Jan 30, 9:49 PM EST, 3 hours 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
949 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0938 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LUDOWICI                31.71N  81.74W
01/30/2013                   LONG               GA   AMATEUR RADIO

            HAM RADIO OPERATOR RELAYED A REPORT FROM THE LONG
            COUNTY FIRE DEPTARTMENT OF A TREE DOWN ON A CAR. NO
            INJURIES. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300008

BDC

Local storm report, Jan 30, 9:58 PM EST, 2 hours 59 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
958 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0928 PM     TSTM WND DMG     4 SSE EGYPT             32.42N  81.45W
01/30/2013                   EFFINGHAM          GA   BROADCAST MEDIA

            BROADCAST MEDIA RELAYED A REPORT OF TREES AND POWER
            LINES DOWN NEAR THE GRIFFIN LAKES AREA. TIME ESTIMATED
            BY RADAR.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300009

BDC

Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:15 PM EST, 2 hours 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1015 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0938 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LUDOWICI                31.71N  81.75W
01/30/2013                   LONG               GA   AMATEUR RADIO

            HAM RADIO OPERATOR RELAYED A REPORT FROM THE LONG
            COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT OF A TREE ACROSS THE ROAD NEAR
            FAMILY DOLLAR. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300010

BDC

Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:30 PM EST, 2 hours 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1030 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1010 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 W WALTERBORO          32.91N  80.70W
01/30/2013                   COLLETON           SC   911 CALL CENTER

            TREE DOWN ALONG INTERSTATE 95...NEAR MILE MARKER 54.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300011

BDC

Local storm report, Jan 30, 10:43 PM EST, 2 hours 14 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1043 PM EST WED JAN 30 2013

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0947 PM     TSTM WND DMG     2 NE PINELAND           32.63N  81.13W
01/30/2013                   JASPER             SC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE DOWN NEAR THE PINELAND POST OFFICE. TIME ESTIMATED
            BY RADAR.

&&

EVENT NUMBER CHS1300012

BDC

The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 30, 8:47 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	58 min
Jan 30, 9:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton, Jasper	60 min
Jan 30, 10:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Jasper	52 min
Jan 30, 10:23 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		97 min
Jan 30, 10:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	63 min
Jan 30, 8:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall	58 min

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in South Carolina, 2013 Every lake wind advisory in 2013

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.