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Lake Wind Advisory 13, NWS Charleston, SC

May 2, 2023Berkeley County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this lake wind advisory at May 2, 2023, 3:10 AM EDT for Berkeley County, South Carolina. It took effect at May 2, 2023, 10:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 2, 2023, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
In effect from
May 2, 2023, 10:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 2, 2023, 10:40 PM EDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC

County Berkeley County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:08 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 333 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2023-05-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 12 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2023-05-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 116 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.