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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

May 28, 2018Long County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2018, 5:55 PM EDT for Long County, Georgia. It was in force for 50 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: May 28, 2018, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2018, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

County Long County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 1018 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.6
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 May 27, 7:47 PM EDT, 22 hours 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 7:47 PM EDT, 22 hours 8 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
May 27, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		116 min
May 27, 9:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
May 27, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
May 28, 3:27 AM EDT	Rip Current Statement	CHS		17 hr
May 28, 4:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
May 28, 6:29 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
May 28, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	45 min
May 28, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Tattnall	48 min
May 28, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler	45 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.