The National Weather Service released an updated wind gust list and some preliminary rain totals from around the area. Mt. Pleasant got rained on, big time! You can keep up with these types of statements on the Charleston Weather Underground page.
445 PM EDT Thu Aug 31 2006
…Tropical Storm Ernesto peak wind and rainfall reports…
The following are some preliminary peak wind gusts reported by
various observation equipment across southern South Carolina and
southeast Georgia through 300 PM EDT.…Southeast South Carolina…
edisto buoy /41004/…………….. 40 mph
capers nearshore /cap2/…………. 37 mph
downtown Charleston /kchl/………. 36 mph
Folly Beach /fbis1/…………….. 36 mph
Charleston NOAA ship /Nancy Foster/..35 mph ++
Folly Beach city Hall…………… 33 mph
Charleston Airport /kchs/……….. 32 mph
Isle of Palms………………….. 32 mph
fripp nearshore /frp2/………….. 32 mph
Capers Island /cap1/……………. 32 mph
Edisto Beach/Handar/……………..31 mph
Edisto Beach Town Hall………….. 30 mph
fripp inlet /frp1/……………… 30 mph
Seabrook Island………………… 26 mph
Hilton Head Island /mesonet/…….. 25 mph
Pineville/Handar/………………. 24 mph
Beaufort /mesonet/……………… 22 mph…Southeast Georgia…
sabsoon tower /skmg1/…………… 47 mph +
sabsoon tower /spag1/…………… 43 mph +
Grays Reef /41008/……………… 36 mph
Tybee Island /mesonet/………….. 28 mph
downtown Savannah /mesonet/……… 25 mph
Savannah Airport/sav/…………… 23 mph
Sapelo Island /mesonet/…………. 23 mph
ft. Pulaski /USGS/……………… 21 mph+ observation taken at 50 meters
++ observation taken at old Navy base on the Charleston peninsulaThe following are some preliminary storm total rainfall reports from
various observation equipment across southern South Carolina and
southeast Georgia through 300 PM EDT.…Southeast South Carolina….
Mt pleasant/snee farm/………….. 5.24 inches
Daniel Island………………….. 4.50 inches +++
McClellanville…………………. 3.64 inches
Goose Creek/naval weapons/………. 2.77 inches
USGS/Moores Landing near seewee/…. 2.75 inches
Charleston Airport/chs/…………. 2.40 inches
Isle of Palm…………………… 2.01 inches
Goose Creek……………………. 1.91 inches+++ through 320 PM
The National Weather Service wishes to thank the local media…
emergency management officials and the public for these reports.
I’ve sent in my rain total to the National Weather Service as well, so that may show up on this report soon.
Discussion of Latest wind gust and rainfall tallies is now closed
In probably two hours or so (8PM advisory), I’ll have compiled a +100-frame GIF for over seven hours of the near hit. I imagine it’ll probably be at least 2Mb when completed. I’ll let you know what I’ve got when it’s done.
Didn’t want to double-reply, but I have compiled it. Took 970MB of RAM to do it for some reason.
If you don’t do right-click > save as…, then it’ll be pretty choppy until it fully loads. The second loop through should be plenty smooth.
104 frames; 4,586,919 bytes; 600×548; 8h59m time lapse:
http://www.lifelessempathy.net/pics/ernesto_1336-2235_utc_104-frames.gif
VERY COOL! I’ll update my latest post accordingly with this.