Thursday, February 19, 2009

Severe Weather Outbreak: Feb. 18 - 19, 2009

We saw quite a few strong to severe thunderstorms in the general area early this morning and late last night. If you were like me, your weather radio was sounding almost unceasingly throughout the wee morning hours of today (February 19). There were a total of seven severe thunderstorm warnings and approximately five marine weather warnings and advisories for the local area.

Late Wednesday evening, the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center issued a severe thunderstorm watch for their (Charleston, SC weather service office) entire county warning area. Later that night, rather, late Thursday morning, the SPC revised that initial severe thunderstorm watch and disseminated a tornado watch for all counties in Charleston weather office's county warning area Georgia counties. We saw a fair amount of rainfall totaling just under one half inch on Skidaway Island from our weather station. There is more weather information, including real-time radar imagery and forecast data, located on our weather website at http://www.myskidawayisland.com/weather/ .

Until next time.

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