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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

June 10, 2013Beaufort County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 10, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT for Beaufort County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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: Jun 10, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Beaufort County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 1882 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 477 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.4
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 10, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 1:56 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 10, 4:36 AM EDT, 11 hours 25 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:25 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:31 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:35 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:56 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 3:58 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 10, 4:01 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	37 min
Jun 10, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	29 min
Jun 10, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	25 min
Jun 10, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	32 min
Jun 10, 4:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	28 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	23 min
Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	33 min
Jun 10, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	39 min
Jun 10, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	32 min
Jun 10, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	33 min
Jun 10, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	35 min
Jun 10, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	66 min
Jun 10, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Hampton	25 min
Jun 10, 5:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	34 min
Jun 10, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	39 min
Jun 10, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	22 min
Jun 10, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	66 min
Jun 10, 6:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	31 min
Jun 10, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	44 min
Jun 10, 6:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	66 min
Jun 10, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	63 min
Jun 10, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		88 min
Jun 10, 7:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	62 min
Jun 10, 7:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		87 min
Jun 10, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jun 10, 7:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton	47 min
Jun 10, 3:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham	35 min
Jun 10, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham, McIntosh	34 min
Jun 10, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	27 min
Jun 10, 5:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler, Jenkins	31 min
Jun 10, 6:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Liberty, Long, McIntosh	49 min
Jun 10, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	33 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement 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.