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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this flash flood warning at Oct 8, 2016, 7:27 AM EDT for Berkeley County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2016, 7:27 AM EDT (11:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2016, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Berkeley County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:29 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 7:30 AM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 0 | 4 S Reevesville, SC | SAULS BRANCH RD...A DIRT ROAD NEAR COWTAIL RD...WAS WASHED OUT BY FLOODING. |
| Oct 8, 8:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ssw Dorchester, SC | ZION RD AT OLD DAM RD WAS WASHED OUT AND IS IMPASSABLE. |
| Oct 8, 8:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 Nw Givhans Ferry Stat, SC | ZION RD AT WIRE RD WAS PARTIALLY WASHED OUT AND IS IMPASSABLE. |
| Oct 8, 10:35 AM EDT | HEAVY RAIN 0 | 6 N Sangaree, SC | BERKELEY COUNTY REPORTED 18-24 INCHES OF STANDING WATER AT THE ENTRANCE OF CANE BAY NEIGHBORHOOD. |
| Oct 8, 11:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 Ssw Bonneau, SC | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE SHOWS A ROAD IN THE OVERTON SUBDIVISION...PRIMARY ROAD IN AND OUT. |
| Oct 8, 11:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 3 Ssw Bonneau, SC | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE SHOWS THE PRIMARY ROAD FOR OVERTON SUBDIVISION IS WASHED OUT. |
| Oct 8, 11:00 AM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 4 Ssw Bonneau, SC | SOCIAL MEDIA PICTURE SHOWS A ROAD TO THE JOINT BASE CHARLESTON SHORT STAY WASHED OUT. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 48 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
- 248 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 306 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 7.6
The text
As transmitted.
395
WGUS52 KCHS 081127
FFWCHS
SCC015-035-081530-
/O.NEW.KCHS.FF.W.0011.161008T1127Z-161008T1530Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
727 AM EDT SAT OCT 8 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR PORTIONS OF...
DORCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA...
BERKELEY COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH CAROLINA...
* UNTIL 1130 AM EDT
* AT 726 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED TORRENTIAL RAINS
ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANE MATTHEW. FLASH FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
BEGIN SHORTLY AS HEAVY RAINS PERSIST FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
SUMMERVILLE...MONCKS CORNER...SAINT GEORGE...SLANDS BRIDGE...INDIAN
FIELD...GIVHANS FERRY STATE PARK...DORCHESTER AND ST. GEORGE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
REPORT FLOODING DIRECTLY TO THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
AT 1-888-383-2024 OR EMAIL YOUR REPORTS TO NWS.CHARLESTONSC@NOAA.GOV.
&&
LAT...LON 3332 7972 3286 8038 3286 8040 3297 8042
3305 8040 3307 8062 3315 8070 3318 8079
3333 8051 3328 8049 3326 8043 3326 8036
3328 8035 3327 8030 3330 8025 3345 8022
3345 8014 3348 8015 3350 8012 3351 7999
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 10 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:54 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 13 days |
| Oct 8, 3:54 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Georgetown, Williamsburg | 5 days |
| Oct 8, 9:42 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 108 min |
| Oct 8, 10:45 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CHS | Allendale, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 8, 11:27 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 5 hr |
| Oct 8, 1:53 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CHS | 8 days | |
| Oct 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Lake Wind Advisory | CHS | Berkeley | 19 hr |
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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.