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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 31, 2013, 6:13 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Mar 31, 2013, 6:13 PM EDT (22:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2013, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Hampton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 186 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Mar 31, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 31, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 345 PM EDT SUN MAR 31 2013 AMZ330-350-352-354-374-SCZ043>045-049-050-052-011945- 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- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY-COASTAL COLLETON- CHARLESTON-TIDAL BERKELEY- 345 PM EDT SUN MAR 31 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042-047-048-051-011945- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL JASPER- 345 PM EDT SUN MAR 31 2013 ...ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SEVERE WEATHER...A WARM AND MOIST AIR MASS WILL SUPPORT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THIS EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND LARGE HAIL. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BEGIN TO DIMINISH AFTER DARK. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
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Special weather statement, Mar 31, 5:49 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 27 min |
| Mar 31, 6:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 33 min |
| Mar 31, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 35 min |
| Mar 31, 6:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 32 min |
| Mar 31, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 30 min |
| Mar 31, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 15 min |
| Mar 31, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester | 61 min |
| Mar 31, 7:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 44 min |
| Mar 31, 5:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 26 min |
| Mar 31, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 26 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.