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Frost Advisory 3, NWS Charleston, SC

November 2, 20235 counties in South Carolina; Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this frost advisory at Nov 2, 2023, 3:46 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina; Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia. It took effect at Nov 3, 2023, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 2, 2023, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 3, 2023, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Nov 3, 2023, 10:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:46 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 329 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 2023-11-02Temperature 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 2023-11-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -26 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1991 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
69 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
Nov 2, 6:54 AM EDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryCHS6 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.