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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Charleston, SC
NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 2024, 3:03 PM EDT for Beaufort County, Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 57 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 19, 2024, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Charleston, SC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Beaufort County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 357 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 185 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 681 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 19, 2:39 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 2:39 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Charleston SC 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 GAZ087-088-SCZ040-042>045-052-201545- Jenkins-Screven-Allendale-Hampton-Inland Colleton-Dorchester- Inland Berkeley-Tidal Berkeley- 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time. AMZ330-350-201545- Charleston Harbor- Waters from South Santee River to Edisto Beach SC out 20 NM- 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time. GAZ099>101-114-115-137>141-SCZ047-049-050-201545- Candler-Bulloch-Effingham-Tattnall-Evans-Long-Inland Liberty- Coastal Liberty-Inland McIntosh-Coastal McIntosh-Inland Jasper- Coastal Colleton-Charleston- 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Heavy Rainfall: Showers and thunderstorms will develop across the region early this afternoon and continue into early evening. Slower moving storms and high rainfall rates could produce localized flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas, particularly in locations that received significant rainfall on Saturday. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time. GAZ116>119-SCZ048-051-201545- Inland Bryan-Coastal Bryan-Inland Chatham-Coastal Chatham-Beaufort- Coastal Jasper- 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Heavy Rainfall: Showers and thunderstorms will develop across the region early this afternoon and continue into early evening. Slower moving storms and high rainfall rates could produce localized flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas, particularly in locations that received significant rainfall on Saturday. In addition, one or two of this thunderstorms may produce damaging wind gusts and large hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time. AMZ352-354-374-201545- Waters from Edisto Beach SC to Savannah GA out 20 NM- Waters from Savannah GA to Altamaha Sound GA out 20 NM, including Grays Reef National Marine Sanctuary- Waters from Savannah GA to Altamaha Sound GA from 20 to 60 NM- 1145 AM EDT Sun May 19 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for Atlantic coastal waters. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Severe Thunderstorms: A large cluster of thunderstorms may push across the coastal waters of South Carolina and Georgia this afternoon. These thunderstorms may produce wind gusts in excess of 35 knots and large hail. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter assistance is not anticipated at this time.
In the hours before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 12:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Screven | 36 min |
| May 19, 12:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Screven | 61 min |
| May 19, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Candler | 32 min |
| May 19, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Effingham | 34 min |
| May 19, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Effingham | 48 min |
| May 19, 1:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 115 min | |
| May 19, 3:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 55 min | |
| May 19, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans | 3 hr |
| May 19, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Chatham | 40 min |
| May 19, 3:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 97 min | |
| May 19, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 91 min | |
| May 19, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 94 min | |
| May 19, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 88 min | |
| May 19, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 99 min | |
| May 19, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 58 min | |
| May 19, 6:17 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | CHS | 45 min | |
| May 19, 1:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 34 min |
| May 19, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CHS | Beaufort | 50 min |
| May 19, 2:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | CHS | Beaufort | 34 min |
| May 19, 3:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Berkeley, Charleston | 2 hr |
| May 19, 5:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Charleston, Colleton | 118 min |
| May 19, 5:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | CHS | Charleston | 60 min |
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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.