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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 12:35 AM EDT for Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 25 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 9, 2016, 12:35 AM EDT (04:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 1:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Allendale County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 139 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 3204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1436 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.0
- Supercell composite
- 14.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 9, 12:05 AM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 12:05 AM EDT, 30 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 8:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-100015- JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-LONG- INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY-INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH- ALLENDALE-HAMPTON-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER-INLAND BERKELEY- INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER- TIDAL BERKELEY- 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. HEAT...HIGHS IN THE MID 90S TO AROUND 100 COMBINED WITH ELEVATED HUMIDITY COULD PRODUCE HEAT INDICES AROUND 110 THROUGH THE WEEKEND AWAY FROM THE BEACHES. HEAT ADVISORIES COULD BE NEEDED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-100015- CHARLESTON HARBOR- WATERS FROM SOUTH SANTEE RIVER TO EDISTO BEACH SC OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM EDISTO BEACH SC TO SAVANNAH GA OUT 20 NM- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA OUT 20 NM...INCLUDING GRAYS REEF NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY- WATERS FROM SAVANNAH GA TO ALTAMAHA SOUND GA EXTENDING FROM 20 TO 60 NM- 811 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ASSISTANCE IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:35 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
1235 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
GAZ088-SCZ040-090500-
SCREVEN GA-ALLENDALE SC-
1235 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF SCREVEN AND ALLENDALE
COUNTIES UNTIL 100 AM EDT...
AT 1234 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR SAVANNAH RIVER SITE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40
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...
ALLENDALE...SYCAMORE...ULMER...SEIGLING...MARTIN...MILLHAVEN...MILLETT AND
BURTONS FERRY LANDING.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3311 8137 3312 8120 3305 8113 3288 8143
3292 8175 3304 8156 3307 8160 3309 8160
3308 8161 3310 8161 3316 8154
TIME...MOT...LOC 0434Z 302DEG 37KT 3317 8171The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton | 52 min |
| Jul 9, 1:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 1:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester | 49 min |
| Jul 9, 2:58 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 62 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:09 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 66 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 60 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:34 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester | 12 hr |
| Jul 9, 11:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 11:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 26 min |
| Jul 9, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 35 min |
| Jul 9, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 52 min | |
| Jul 9, 12:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 43 min |
| Jul 9, 2:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort, Jasper | 40 min |
| Jul 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 39 min |
| Jul 9, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Hampton, Jasper | 47 min |
| Jul 9, 3:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 84 min | |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jasper | 25 min |
| Jul 9, 3:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Charleston | 38 min |
| Jul 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper | 53 min |
| Jul 9, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 89 min | |
| Jul 9, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 95 min | |
| Jul 9, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 32 min |
| Jul 9, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Dorchester | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 5:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Dorchester | 37 min |
| Jul 9, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 1:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch | 46 min |
| Jul 9, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Bulloch, Candler | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Bulloch, Effingham | 54 min |
| Jul 9, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Evans | 23 min |
| Jul 9, 3:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 30 min |
| Jul 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Jenkins | 52 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.