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Tropical Storm Warning 1014, NWS Charleston, SC

October 6, 20164 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this tropical storm warning at Oct 6, 2016, 12:28 PM EDT for 4 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 50 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 6, 2016, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired: Oct 8, 2016, 2:11 PM EDT
In force: 50 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Long County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 662 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 150 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this tropical storm warning 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 tropical storm warning went out at Oct 6, 11:58 AM EDT, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 6, 11:58 AM EDT, 30 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
Oct 6, 5:09 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	55 hr
Oct 6, 5:48 AM EDT	Tropical Storm Watch	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	12 hr
Oct 6, 9:27 AM EDT	Hurricane Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	55 hr

Nearby

Tropical Storm Warnings in Georgia, 2016 Tropical Storm Warnings in South Carolina, 2016 Every tropical storm warning in 2016

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.