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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Charleston, SC

March 5, 2025Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 5, 2025, 7:01 AM EST for Jenkins County, Screven County, Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 5, 2025, 7:01 AM EST (12:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2025, 7:45 AM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Jenkins County, GA, Screven County, GA, Allendale County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:03 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 5, 3:19 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 154 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 753 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 303 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 353 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 Mar 4, 3:23 PM EST, 15 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 4, 3:23 PM EST, 15 hours 38 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 5, 6:13 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Candler, Jenkins, Tattnall	47 min
Mar 5, 6:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bulloch, Evans, Screven, Tattnall	52 min
Mar 5, 11:48 AM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		117 min
Mar 5, 1:41 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	CHS		64 min
Mar 5, 3:00 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		33 hr
Mar 5, 11:43 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	62 min
Mar 5, 2:42 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CHS	Berkeley	26 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Georgia, 2025 Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Carolina, 2025 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2025

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.