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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Charleston, SC

March 20, 2023Hampton County, South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this frost advisory at Mar 20, 2023, 3:05 PM EDT for Hampton County, South Carolina; 5 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Mar 21, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 20, 2023, 3:05 PM EDT (19:05 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 21, 2023, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 21, 2023, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 284 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2023-03-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1532 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 20, 3:16 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCHS6 hr
Mar 20, 3:04 PM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCHS6 hr
Mar 20, 3:05 PM EDTFreeze WarningCHSAllendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester18 hr

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.