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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 6, 2022, 7:07 PM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 32 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
- Apr 6, 2022, 7:07 PM EDT (23:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 6, 2022, 7:39 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Dorchester County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 4:21 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 258 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -193 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 Apr 6, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 6, 5:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Charleston SC 435 PM EDT Wed Apr 6 2022 AMZ330-350-352-354-GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045- 047>052-072045- Charleston Harbor- Waters from South Santee River to Edisto Beach SC out 20 NM- Waters from Edisto Beach SC to Savannah GA out 20 NM- Waters from Savannah GA to Altamaha Sound GA out 20 NM, including Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary-Jenkins-Screven-Candler-Bulloch- Effingham-Tattnall-Evans-Inland Bryan-Coastal Bryan-Inland Chatham- Coastal Chatham-Long-Inland Liberty-Coastal Liberty-Inland McIntosh- Coastal McIntosh-Allendale-Hampton-Inland Colleton-Dorchester- Inland Berkeley-Inland Jasper-Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Charleston- Coastal Jasper-Tidal Berkeley- 435 PM EDT Wed Apr 6 2022 ...TORNADO WATCH 102 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters, southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time. AMZ374-072045- Waters from Savannah GA to Altamaha Sound GA from 20 to 60 NM- 435 PM EDT Wed Apr 6 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Severe Thunderstorms: Another round of severe weather is possible this afternoon and evening across Southeast South Carolina and Southeast Georgia. There will be a risk for winds in excess of 35 knots, hail and even a few waterspouts. Be ready to take action should severe weather develop. Stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio, TV or your local news source for the latest information from the National Weather Service. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Please relay any reports of hazardous weather including, but not limited to large hail, damaging winds and flooding to the National Weather Service in Charleston at 1-888-383-2024.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Apr 6, 5:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 5, 9:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 31 min | |
| Apr 5, 10:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 118 min | |
| Apr 6, 2:53 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Georgetown, Williamsburg | 23 days |
| Apr 6, 2:56 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | CHS | 31 hr | |
| Apr 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 45 min |
| Apr 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 53 min |
| Apr 6, 5:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 61 min |
| Apr 6, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester | 62 min |
| Apr 6, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 66 min |
| Apr 6, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Berkeley | 56 min |
| Apr 6, 6:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Dorchester | 39 min |
| Apr 6, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 55 min |
| Apr 6, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Hampton | 13 min |
| Apr 6, 7:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 40 min |
| Apr 6, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Berkeley | 46 min |
| Apr 6, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Colleton, Dorchester | 49 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.