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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

March 18, 2016Bulloch County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Mar 18, 2016, 12:38 AM EDT for Bulloch County, Georgia. It was in force for 37 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: Mar 18, 2016, 12:38 AM EDT (04:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 18, 2016, 1:15 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Bulloch County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Mar 17, 9:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 17, 9:41 PM EDT, 2 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 18, 12:38 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1238 AM EDT FRI MAR 18 2016

GAZ100-116-180515-
BULLOCH GA-INLAND BRYAN GA-
1238 AM EDT FRI MAR 18 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF BULLOCH AND BRYAN
COUNTIES UNTIL 115 AM EDT...

AT 1237 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR GROVELAND...OR 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF
PEMBROKE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

  HAZARD...UP TO PENNY SIZED HAIL.

  IMPACT...MINOR DAMAGE TO PLANTS...TREES AND CROPS IS POSSIBLE.
           DAMAGE TO WINDSHIELDS IS UNLIKELY.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
PEMBROKE...BAY...STILSON...DENMARK...NEVILS AND GROVELAND.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REPORT DAMAGE DIRECTLY TO THE CHARLESTON NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE AT
1-888-383-2024 WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. YOU CAN ALSO EMAIL YOUR
REPORT TO NWS.CHARLESTONSC@NOAA.GOV.

&&

LAT...LON 3214 8175 3226 8180 3237 8155 3220 8145
TIME...MOT...LOC 0437Z 250DEG 23KT 3220 8171

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 18, 1:10 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	65 min
Mar 18, 2:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Mar 18, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Effingham	36 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in Georgia, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

Sources

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