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Lake Wind Advisory 5, NWS Charleston, SC

February 8, 2016Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Feb 8, 2016, 3:38 PM EST for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It was in force for 54 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 2016, 3:38 PM EST (20:38 UTC)
Expired
Feb 10, 2016, 9:20 PM EST
In force
54 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 20:39 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 12:00Z, 8.6 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2016-02-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2016-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1831 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 8, 6:12 AM ESTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCHS4 hr
Feb 8, 9:59 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryCHS69 hr
Feb 8, 3:37 PM ESTGale WatchCHS6 hr
Feb 8, 4:09 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSAllendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton51 min
Feb 8, 4:29 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSBulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins, Screven and 1 more61 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.