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Lake Wind Advisory 10, NWS Charleston, SC

April 8, 2016Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Apr 8, 2016, 3:49 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Apr 8, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 8, 2016, 3:49 AM EDT (07:49 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 8, 2016, 12:00 PM EDT
Expired: Apr 8, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 320 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: 26 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Apr 7, 7:28 PM EDT, 8 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 7, 7:28 PM EDT, 8 hours 21 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
Apr 8, 12:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	34 min
Apr 8, 3:34 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		43 hr
Apr 8, 3:34 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		43 hr
Apr 8, 3:49 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	35 hr
Apr 8, 2:57 PM EDT	Fire Weather Watch	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Long and 2 more	9 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.