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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Charleston, SC

March 16, 2025Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 2025, 11:22 AM EDT for Liberty County, McIntosh County, Georgia. It was in force for 38 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: Mar 16, 2025, 11:22 AM EDT (15:22 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT
In force: 38 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Liberty County, GA, McIntosh County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 16, 6:12 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 49 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -257 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 878 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 454 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 479 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 Mar 16, 11:21 AM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 11:21 AM EDT, 1 minute before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 11:06 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 9:39 AM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 9:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 10:14 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 10:43 AM EDT, 39 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 10:45 AM EDT, 37 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
Mar 16, 6:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jenkins	59 min
Mar 16, 8:23 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Candler, Jenkins, Screven	52 min
Mar 16, 8:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Evans, Liberty, Long and 2 more	43 min
Mar 16, 8:33 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	113 min
Mar 16, 8:55 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Screven	18 min
Mar 16, 8:55 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	CHS		8 hr
Mar 16, 9:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Screven	44 min
Mar 16, 9:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Bulloch, Evans, Liberty, Long, Tattnall	40 min
Mar 16, 9:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham, Screven	38 min
Mar 16, 9:31 AM EDT	Gale Warning	CHS		7 hr
Mar 16, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch, Effingham	30 min
Mar 16, 10:23 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	CHS	Burke, Emanuel, Jenkins	4 days
Mar 16, 11:20 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		115 min
Mar 16, 11:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	McIntosh	34 min
Mar 16, 12:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		57 min
Mar 16, 2:11 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Mar 16, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Liberty	31 min
Mar 16, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham	34 min
Mar 16, 5:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	CHS	Jenkins	101 min
Mar 16, 7:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		67 min
Mar 16, 7:01 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	CHS	Allendale	20 min
Mar 16, 7:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale	29 min
Mar 16, 9:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton, Hampton	51 min
Mar 16, 10:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	31 min
Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Dorchester	44 min
Mar 16, 10:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	47 min
Mar 16, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	45 min
Mar 16, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Georgetown	36 min

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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.