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Hurricane Warning 1010, NWS Charleston, SC

August 30, 2023Evans County, Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this hurricane warning at Aug 30, 2023, 5:14 AM EDT for Evans County, Long County, Tattnall County, Georgia. It was in force for 12 hr. 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 30, 2023, 5:14 AM EDT (09:14 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2023, 5:06 PM EDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Evans County, GA, Long County, GA, Tattnall County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 166 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: 889 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1076 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane 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 hurricane warning went out at Aug 30, 4:22 AM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 4:22 AM EDT, 52 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
Aug 30, 2:28 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Allendale	7 hr
Aug 30, 4:40 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		65 min
Aug 30, 5:20 AM EDT	Storm Surge Warning	CHS		21 hr
Aug 30, 11:01 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Allendale	21 days
Aug 30, 11:15 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston	30 min
Aug 30, 11:43 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston, Dorchester	11 min
Aug 30, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		25 min
Aug 30, 3:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	15 min
Aug 30, 3:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	25 min
Aug 30, 3:38 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Charleston, Dorchester	20 min
Aug 30, 3:52 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester	23 min
Aug 30, 3:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	5 hr
Aug 30, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		21 min
Aug 30, 4:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		26 min
Aug 30, 4:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	3 hr
Aug 30, 4:48 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston	27 min
Aug 30, 5:16 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Berkeley	29 min
Aug 30, 5:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Hampton, Jasper	25 min
Aug 30, 5:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	45 min
Aug 30, 6:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	4 hr
Aug 30, 6:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	5 hr
Aug 30, 7:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CHS	Allendale, Hampton, Jasper	6 hr
Aug 30, 9:24 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Liberty, McIntosh	8 min
Aug 30, 9:51 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Tattnall, Toombs	5 days
Aug 30, 10:02 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty	17 min
Aug 30, 10:27 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham	33 min
Aug 30, 11:16 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Evans	21 days
Aug 30, 2:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Tattnall	114 min
Aug 30, 2:19 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Bulloch	26 min
Aug 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven and 1 more	88 min
Aug 30, 3:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Liberty, Long and 1 more	4 hr
Aug 30, 4:46 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Effingham, Screven	29 min
Aug 30, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Liberty, Long and 1 more	9 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.