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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

September 1, 2016Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Sep 1, 2016, 8:52 PM EDT for Bryan County, Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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: Sep 1, 2016, 8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2016, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bryan County, GA, Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 169 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: 990 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 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 Sep 1, 8:48 PM EDT, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 8:48 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 1, 8:52 PM EDT, 0 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
Sep 1, 10:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		86 min
Sep 1, 11:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		61 min
Sep 2, 2:00 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		60 min
Sep 2, 2:56 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		64 min
Sep 2, 3:33 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		57 min
Sep 2, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		55 min
Sep 2, 4:27 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Sep 2, 4:47 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		58 min
Sep 2, 6:14 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Jasper	31 min
Sep 2, 6:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		30 min
Sep 2, 10:28 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		62 min
Sep 2, 12:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	110 min
Sep 2, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Colleton, Dorchester	36 min
Sep 2, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	66 min
Sep 2, 1:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	64 min
Sep 2, 2:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Charleston	58 min
Sep 2, 2:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	66 min
Sep 2, 3:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Dorchester	58 min
Sep 2, 3:23 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Liberty, Long, McIntosh	37 min
Sep 2, 3:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham	30 min
Sep 2, 3:38 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	37 min
Sep 2, 4:00 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Liberty	30 min
Sep 2, 4:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Liberty, Long, McIntosh	118 min
Sep 2, 10:29 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Tattnall, Toombs	24 hr

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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.