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Special Weather Statement, NWS Charleston, SC

August 10, 2026Dorchester County, South Carolina

NWS Charleston, SC issued this special weather statement at Aug 10, 2026, 3:21 PM EDT for Dorchester County, South Carolina. It was in force for 24 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 10, 2026, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: Aug 10, 2026, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 24 min
Issued by: NWS Charleston, SC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Dorchester County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 34 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: 1172 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -44 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1033 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 12:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	28 min
Aug 10, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	30 min
Aug 10, 1:51 PM EDT	Heat Advisory	CHS	Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper	30 hr
Aug 10, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	34 min
Aug 10, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Charleston	32 min
Aug 10, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		80 min
Aug 10, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	27 min
Aug 10, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Berkeley	24 min
Aug 10, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Colleton	32 min
Aug 10, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		32 min
Aug 10, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort	44 min
Aug 10, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Beaufort	22 min
Aug 10, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Beaufort	27 min
Aug 10, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CHS		51 min
Aug 10, 5:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Chatham	49 min
Aug 10, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham	50 min
Aug 10, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	Bryan, Chatham, Liberty	40 min
Aug 10, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	CHS	Effingham	39 min
Aug 10, 7:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CHS	McIntosh	45 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.