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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Charleston, SC

February 16, 2025Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Feb 16, 2025, 7:34 AM EST for Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 56 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
Feb 16, 2025, 7:34 AM EST (12:34 UTC)
Expired
Feb 16, 2025, 8:30 AM EST
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Allendale County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:35 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 16, 7:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 2025-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 2025-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 328 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
842 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
328 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
365 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 16, 6:44 AM EST, 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 6:44 AM EST, 50 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Charleston, SC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 16, 7:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBulloch, Candler, Evans, Jenkins, Screven, Tattnall56 min
Feb 16, 8:14 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans, Jenkins and 4 more61 min
Feb 16, 9:11 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSBryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty, Long, McIntosh64 min
Feb 16, 10:14 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSMcIntosh16 min
Feb 16, 2:34 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryCHS19 hr
Feb 15, 8:58 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningCHSBerkeley, Georgetown, Williamsburg11 days
Feb 16, 3:59 AM ESTHigh Surf AdvisoryCHS14 hr
Feb 16, 8:46 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSColleton, Dorchester29 min
Feb 16, 9:14 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementCHSBeaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton and 1 more91 min
Feb 16, 5:37 PM ESTLake Wind AdvisoryCHSBerkeley9 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.