Alert archive / South Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2014
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2014, 4:33 AM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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 3, 2014, 4:33 AM EDT (08:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2014, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Colleton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:33 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 56 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
- 1136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
967
WWUS82 KCHS 030833
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
433 AM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014
SCZ049-050-030900-
CHARLESTON-COASTAL COLLETON-
433 AM EDT SUN AUG 3 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF CHARLESTON AND
COLLETON COUNTIES THROUGH 500 AM EDT...
AT 428 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM...NEAR EDISTO BEACH STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHWEST
AT 20 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED INCLUDE...
EDISTO ISLAND...EDISTO BEACH STATE PARK...BENNETTS POINT...ADAMS
RUN...FENWICK...WIGGINS...
PREPARE NOW FOR THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS...
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...
TORRENTIAL RAIN WHICH MAY PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING...
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3247 8034 3245 8036 3243 8035 3243 8036
3245 8037 3248 8034 3249 8035 3250 8036
3247 8039 3247 8041 3249 8042 3250 8044
3263 8058 3280 8036 3255 8020
TIME...MOT...LOC 0833Z 131DEG 17KT 3255 8035
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:06 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Jasper | 84 min |
| Aug 3, 3:20 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 40 min | |
| Aug 3, 3:37 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 113 min |
| Aug 3, 6:01 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 59 min | |
| Aug 2, 8:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bryan | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 8:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Tattnall | 90 min |
| Aug 2, 8:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 18 min |
| Aug 2, 8:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Tattnall | 95 min |
| Aug 2, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 61 min |
Nearby
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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.