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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 14, 2019, 4:37 PM EDT for Charleston County, Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2019, 4:37 PM EDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2019, 5:10 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Possible
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Charleston County, SC, Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 16 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
- 1389 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 964 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 14, 4:11 PM EDT, 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 4:11 PM EDT, 26 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 14, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 37 min |
| Aug 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 65 min |
| Aug 14, 2:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 3:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 23 min |
| Aug 14, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 63 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester | 91 min |
| Aug 14, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 64 min |
| Aug 14, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 56 min |
| Aug 14, 4:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 28 min | |
| Aug 14, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort, Colleton | 66 min |
| Aug 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Beaufort | 87 min |
| Aug 14, 4:51 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester | 84 min |
| Aug 14, 3:34 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | CHS | Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Long, Tattnall | 11 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 27 min |
| Aug 14, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Tattnall | 28 min |
| Aug 14, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Chatham | 48 min |
| Aug 14, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty, Long | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Chatham | 91 min |
| Aug 14, 3:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Liberty, Long | 85 min |
| Aug 14, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Liberty | 45 min |
| Aug 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Effingham, Screven | 87 min |
| Aug 14, 4:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Liberty, Long, McIntosh | 95 min |
| Aug 14, 4:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | McIntosh | 50 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.