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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this heat advisory at Aug 16, 2017, 9:59 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at Aug 16, 2017, 12:05 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2017, 9:59 AM EDT (13:59 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 16, 2017, 12:05 PM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2017, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
County Berkeley County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 197 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 934 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 6:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Hampton | 28 min |
Nearby
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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.