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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

July 6, 2016Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 6, 2016, 4:13 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Jul 6, 2016, 4:13 PM EDT (20:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:17 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 117 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: 835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1165 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -27 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 Jul 6, 3:36 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 3:36 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 3:21 AM EDT, 12 hours 52 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 4:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
413 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

SCZ040-042-062045-
ALLENDALE SC-HAMPTON SC-
413 PM EDT WED JUL 6 2016

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF HAMPTON AND ALLENDALE
COUNTIES UNTIL 445 PM EDT...

AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR LURAY...OR 10 MILES WEST OF LAKE WARREN STATE
PARK...MOVING EAST AT 30 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...
HAMPTON...LAKE WARREN STATE PARK...VARNVILLE...ESTILL...BRUNSON...GIFFORD...
LURAY AND ALMEDA INTERSECTION.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT. THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE
LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED TORNADOES SUDDENLY...SOMETIMES
WITH LITTLE OR NO WARNING. BE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER
CONDITIONS AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF SEVERE WEATHER IS OBSERVED
OR A WARNING IS ISSUED.

&&

LAT...LON 3270 8136 3285 8141 3299 8107 3277 8101
TIME...MOT...LOC 2013Z 251DEG 28KT 3280 8135

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 6, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	49 min
Jul 6, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	59 min
Jul 6, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Dorchester	28 min
Jul 6, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	63 min
Jul 6, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	54 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	30 min
Jul 6, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper	62 min
Jul 6, 6:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	55 min
Jul 6, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		67 min
Jul 6, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	60 min
Jul 6, 6:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		53 min
Jul 6, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jul 6, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		112 min
Jul 6, 7:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		113 min
Jul 6, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	29 min
Jul 6, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall	64 min
Jul 6, 6:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham, Liberty	62 min

Nearby

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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.