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Lake Wind Advisory 7, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at Apr 2, 2016, 3:17 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Apr 2, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2016, 3:17 AM EDT (07:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 2, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 3, 2016, 3:34 AM EDT
- In force
- 14 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 07:20 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 635 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 844 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 1, 7:20 PM EDT, 7 hours 57 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 1, 7:20 PM EDT, 7 hours 57 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 1, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Apr 2, 4:23 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 37 min |
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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.