Alert archive / Georgia / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT for McIntosh County, Georgia. 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
- Aug 3, 2016, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County McIntosh County, GA
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 745 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 958 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
852
WWUS82 KCHS 031913
SPSCHS
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
313 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2016
GAZ117-138>141-031945-
COASTAL MCINTOSH GA-INLAND MCINTOSH GA-COASTAL BRYAN GA-
INLAND LIBERTY GA-COASTAL LIBERTY GA-
313 PM EDT WED AUG 3 2016
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT PORTIONS OF LIBERTY...MCINTOSH
AND BRYAN COUNTIES UNTIL 345 PM EDT...
AT 312 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER HARRIS NECK...OR 20 MILES SOUTH OF RICHMOND
HILL...MOVING EAST AT 15 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...
HARRIS NECK...ST. CATHERINES ISLAND...HALFMOON LANDING AND SHELLMAN
BLUFF.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BEACHES ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS DURING THUNDERSTORMS BECAUSE
LIGHTNING WILL USUALLY STRIKE THE TALLEST OBJECT IN THE VICINITY.
MOVE OFF BEACHES AND GET IN A STURDY STRUCTURE OR AUTOMOBILE
IMMEDIATELY. MANY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING ON BEACHES IN
THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
&&
LAT...LON 3155 8132 3169 8134 3174 8121 3172 8118
3171 8113 3172 8113 3171 8110 3162 8110
3155 8114 3154 8114
TIME...MOT...LOC 1912Z 251DEG 13KT 3164 8125
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 8:45 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 2 hr | |
| Aug 3, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 26 min |
| Aug 3, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Colleton | 24 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.