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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

May 2, 2016Effingham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2016, 4:09 PM EDT for Effingham County, Georgia. It was in force for 36 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: May 2, 2016, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Effingham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 535 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

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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 May 2, 4:08 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 2, 4:08 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 2, 4:08 PM EDT, 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 2, 11:31 AM EDT, 4 hours 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 2, 3:43 PM EDT, 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
343 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

SCZ047-051-022015-
INLAND JASPER SC-COASTAL JASPER SC-
343 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF JASPER COUNTY UNTIL
415 PM EDT...

AT 342 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER RIDGELAND...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...STRONG WINDS 45 TO 55 MPH.

  IMPACT...EXPECT MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
           LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
RIDGELAND...COOSAWHATCHIE...GRAHAMVILLE...OLD HOUSE...GILLISONVILLE AND
GRAYS.

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 3274 8100 3269 8095 3265 8096 3264 8096
      3262 8090 3266 8087 3261 8083 3255 8083
      3253 8085 3250 8082 3245 8083 3242 8085
      3245 8108 3267 8112 3274 8103
TIME...MOT...LOC 1942Z 186DEG 16KT 3252 8097

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Special weather statement, May 2, 4:09 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
409 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

GAZ101-SCZ047-022045-
EFFINGHAM GA-INLAND JASPER SC-
409 PM EDT MON MAY 2 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF EFFINGHAM AND JASPER
COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...

AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER PURYSBURGH...OR 11 MILES EAST OF
SPRINGFIELD...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

  HAZARD...STRONG WINDS 45 TO 55 MPH.

  IMPACT...EXPECT MINOR DAMAGE TO TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND OF
           LIGHT...UNSECURED OBJECTS.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM INCLUDE...
RINCON...HARDEEVILLE...TARBORO...PURYSBURGH...TILLMAN...STILLWELL...
EBENEZER AND CLYO.

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 3226 8104 3224 8121 3251 8134 3256 8109
TIME...MOT...LOC 2009Z 169DEG 18KT 3232 8113

JMC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 2, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	32 min
May 2, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	35 min
May 2, 5:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale	54 min
May 2, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	28 min
May 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch	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.