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Extreme Cold Warning 1, NWS Charleston, SC

January 30, 20265 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this extreme cold warning at Jan 30, 2026, 12:33 PM EST for 5 counties in South Carolina; 8 counties in Georgia. It took effect at Jan 31, 2026, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 21 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 30, 2026, 12:33 PM EST (17:33 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 31, 2026, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Feb 1, 2026, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 21 hr
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC

Counties Bulloch County, GA, Candler County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Long County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 304 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 89 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 230 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 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warning went out at Jan 30, 6:39 AM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 6:39 AM EST, 5 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 4:41 AM EST, 7 hours 52 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
Jan 30, 12:50 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	51 hr
Jan 30, 12:30 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	CHS	Allendale, Berkeley, Colleton, Dorchester, Hampton	46 hr
Jan 30, 12:33 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	CHS	Berkeley	45 hr
Jan 30, 1:56 PM EST	Gale Warning	CHS		47 hr
Jan 30, 1:56 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	CHS		11 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.