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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

June 30, 2016Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jun 30, 2016, 4:18 PM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 27 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: Jun 30, 2016, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Dorchester County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 767 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 900 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 29, 7:21 PM EDT, 20 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 7:21 PM EDT, 20 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 3:32 PM EDT	Coastal Flood Advisory	CHS		3 hr
Jun 30, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		60 min
Jun 30, 6:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	66 min
Jun 30, 7:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CHS	Allendale	3 hr
Jun 30, 2:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall	57 min
Jun 30, 3:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Chatham	3 hr
Jun 30, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	53 min
Jun 30, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in South Carolina, 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.