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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

June 30, 2015Allendale County, South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2015, 4:10 PM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 50 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 30, 2015, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2015, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Evans County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 181 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -191 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1411 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 30, 2:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 2:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 2:12 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
359 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

SCZ040-302030-
ALLENDALE SC-
359 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF ALLENDALE COUNTY
UNTIL 430 PM EDT...

AT 359 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
MILLETT...OR 11 MILES SOUTHEAST OF SAVANNAH RIVER SITE...MOVING EAST
AT 45 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SYCAMORE...ULMER...SEIGLING...APPLETON...MARTIN AND MILLETT.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 3311 8137 3311 8129 3312 8120 3305 8112
      3303 8152 3305 8155 3305 8157 3306 8158
      3307 8160 3308 8160 3308 8161 3310 8161
      3316 8153
TIME...MOT...LOC 1959Z 261DEG 40KT 3309 8158

FWA

Special weather statement, Jun 30, 4:10 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
410 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

GAZ087-088-099-100-114-115-SCZ040-302100-
EVANS GA-CANDLER GA-BULLOCH GA-TATTNALL GA-SCREVEN GA-JENKINS GA-
ALLENDALE SC-
410 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF BULLOCH...EVANS...
CANDLER...JENKINS...SCREVEN...TATTNALL AND ALLENDALE COUNTIES UNTIL
500 PM EDT...

AT 410 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR SARDIS TO 6 MILES
SOUTH OF GORDONIA ALTAMAHA STATE PARK...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
STATESBORO...REIDSVILLE...METTER...ALLENDALE...SYLVANIA...CLAXTON...
WESTSIDE AND MIDDLEGROUND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REPORT DAMAGE DIRECTLY TO THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
1-888-383-2024 WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.

&&

LAT...LON 3218 8219 3295 8186 3291 8176 3304 8156
      3305 8129 3186 8192 3193 8222
TIME...MOT...LOC 2010Z 272DEG 16KT 3291 8178 3201 8218

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	31 min
Jun 30, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale	44 min
Jun 30, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	66 min
Jun 30, 4:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	66 min
Jun 30, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	35 min
Jun 30, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	64 min
Jun 30, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton	66 min
Jun 30, 6:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort	44 min
Jun 30, 6:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	24 min
Jun 30, 6:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	64 min
Jun 30, 6:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Colleton	65 min
Jun 30, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		96 min
Jun 30, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	23 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2015 Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 2015 Every special weather statement in 2015

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.