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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Charleston, SC

May 6, 2024Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2024, 5:30 PM EDT for Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
May 6, 2024, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 2024, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 128 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2024-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 179 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2024-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
179 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
49 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
May 6, 4:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSAllendale26 min
May 6, 5:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSAllendale36 min
May 6, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSHampton30 min
May 6, 6:35 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSColleton, Jasper25 min
May 6, 7:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSDorchester49 min

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.