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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 82, NWS Charleston, SC

August 24, 2026Chatham County, Georgia

NWS Charleston, SC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 24, 2026, 3:36 PM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia. It was in force for 29 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
Aug 24, 2026, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 24, 2026, 4:05 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Charleston, SC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Chatham County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 174 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3152 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, Jacksonville, FL at 12:00Z on 2026-08-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3152 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 24, 1:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSJasper18 min
Aug 24, 2:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSCharleston24 min
Aug 24, 3:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSCharleston22 min
Aug 24, 3:15 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS45 min
Aug 24, 3:32 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS38 min
Aug 24, 3:43 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS47 min
Aug 24, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCHSBeaufort, Jasper26 min
Aug 24, 4:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS66 min
Aug 24, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSBeaufort36 min
Aug 24, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS50 min
Aug 24, 5:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS94 min
Aug 24, 7:07 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningCHS53 min
Aug 24, 2:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSLiberty26 min
Aug 24, 2:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSChatham27 min
Aug 24, 3:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSChatham28 min
Aug 24, 4:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementCHSMcIntosh31 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.