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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

May 19, 2016Candler County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2016, 12:08 PM EDT for Candler 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: May 19, 2016, 12:08 PM EDT (16:08 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 2016, 12:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Candler County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 1273 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 1:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	32 min
May 19, 2:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Jasper	92 min
May 19, 2:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	81 min
May 19, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		56 min
May 19, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		84 min
May 19, 5:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		95 min
May 19, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	34 min
May 19, 3:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	85 min

Nearby

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

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.