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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Jul 9, 2016, 11:01 AM EDT for Colleton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 29 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, 11:01 AM EDT (15:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2016, 11:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Colleton County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:03 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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 41 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
- 1008 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1430 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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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, 7:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 7:02 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC 639 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 GAZ118-119-SCZ043>045-047>052-101045- INLAND CHATHAM-COASTAL CHATHAM-INLAND COLLETON-DORCHESTER- INLAND BERKELEY-INLAND JASPER-BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON- COASTAL JASPER-TIDAL BERKELEY- 639 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. HEAT ADVISORY. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPACT SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE GREATEST BETWEEN 1 PM AND 7 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER INCLUDING...BUT NOT LIMITED TO LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 1-888-383-2024. AMZ330-350-352-354-374-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>117-137>141-SCZ040-042- 101045- 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-JENKINS-SCREVEN-CANDLER-BULLOCH-EFFINGHAM-TATTNALL-EVANS- INLAND BRYAN-COASTAL BRYAN-LONG-INLAND LIBERTY-COASTAL LIBERTY- INLAND MCINTOSH-COASTAL MCINTOSH-ALLENDALE-HAMPTON- 639 AM EDT SAT JUL 9 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR ATLANTIC COASTAL WATERS...SOUTHEAST GEORGIA AND SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPACT SOUTHEAST SOUTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHEAST GEORGIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL BEING THE PRIMARY HAZARDS. THE RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE THE GREATEST BETWEEN 1 PM AND 7 PM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO ALL HAZARDS...TV OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS SOURCE FOR THE LATEST UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... PLEASE RELAY ANY REPORTS OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER INCLUDING...BUT NOT LIMITED TO LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND FLOODING TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON AT 1-888-383-2024.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 11:01 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 12:35 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Allendale | 25 min |
| 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, 11:04 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.