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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Charleston, SC

June 8, 20255 counties in South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2025, 12:48 PM EDT for 5 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 33 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: Jun 8, 2025, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2025, 1:21 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Beaufort County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Jasper County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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
Jun 8, 11:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 56 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: 1747 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 917 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.6

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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 Jun 8, 12:33 PM EDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 12:33 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 11:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Charleston SC
1140 AM EDT Sun Jun 8 2025

GAZ087-088-099>101-114>119-137>141-SCZ040-042>045-047>052-091545-
Jenkins-Screven-Candler-Bulloch-Effingham-Tattnall-Evans-
Inland Bryan-Coastal Bryan-Inland Chatham-Coastal Chatham-Long-
Inland Liberty-Coastal Liberty-Inland McIntosh-Coastal McIntosh-
Allendale-Hampton-Inland Colleton-Dorchester-Inland Berkeley-
Inland Jasper-Beaufort-Coastal Colleton-Charleston-Coastal Jasper-
Tidal Berkeley-
1140 AM EDT Sun Jun 8 2025

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for southeast Georgia and
southeast South Carolina.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

See the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook for more information
about the following possible hazardous weather:

- Severe Thunderstorm

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday.

See the Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook for more information
about the following possible hazardous weather:

- Severe Thunderstorm

&&

The Graphical Hazardous Weather Outlook can be found at:
https://www.weather.gov/erh/ghwo/?wfo=chs

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 11:27 AM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Charleston SC
1127 AM EDT Sun Jun 8 2025

GAZ087-088-100-101-SCZ040-042-043-047-081630-
Hampton SC-Allendale SC-Inland Jasper SC-Jenkins GA-Screven GA-
Bulloch GA-Inland Colleton SC-Effingham GA-
1127 AM EDT Sun Jun 8 2025

...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT EFFINGHAM...JASPER...
COLLETON...SCREVEN...JENKINS...BULLOCH...ALLENDALE AND HAMPTON
COUNTIES UNTIL 1230 PM EDT...

At 1127 AM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong
thunderstorms extending from 9 miles northeast of Ulmer to near
Pulaski, moving east at 40 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible.

Locations impacted include...
  Allendale, Sylvania, Hampton, Lake Warren State Park, Colleton,
  Varnville, Estill, Fairfax, Brunson and Hiltonia.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Stay tuned to NOAA Weather Radio All Hazards, TV or your local news
source for the latest information from the National Weather Service.

&&

LAT...LON 3261 8201 3292 8175 3305 8154 3305 8155
      3308 8161 3316 8154 3311 8136 3312 8119
      3303 8108 3310 8094 3306 8090 3309 8088
      3313 8090 3318 8079 3317 8074 3249 8105
      3258 8202
TIME...MOT...LOC 1526Z 250DEG 36KT 3319 8110 3273 8157 3243 8198

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.75 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

brs

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 12:28 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 8, 12:36 PM EDT, 12 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
Jun 7, 8:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Liberty, Long, McIntosh	39 min
Jun 7, 8:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan	25 min
Jun 7, 8:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Jenkins, Screven	32 min
Jun 7, 11:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		38 min
Jun 8, 11:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Screven	63 min
Jun 8, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Evans, Tattnall	47 min
Jun 8, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Bryan, Liberty, Long	49 min
Jun 8, 1:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Effingham	29 min
Jun 8, 1:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		86 min
Jun 8, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham, McIntosh	62 min
Jun 8, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		83 min
Jun 8, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty	51 min
Jun 8, 1:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		82 min
Jun 8, 2:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		64 min
Jun 8, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		2 hr
Jun 8, 2:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		78 min
Jun 8, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		60 min
Jun 8, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		19 min
Jun 8, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		54 min
Jun 7, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Allendale, Hampton	36 min
Jun 7, 8:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	35 min
Jun 7, 9:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	41 min
Jun 7, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	46 min
Jun 7, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Jasper	38 min
Jun 7, 11:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	33 min
Jun 8, 12:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	60 min
Jun 8, 12:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester	65 min
Jun 8, 12:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester	38 min
Jun 8, 1:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Dorchester	44 min
Jun 8, 1:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort, Jasper	60 min
Jun 8, 2:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	15 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.