WHUS42 KCHS 200646
CFWCHS
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON SC
246 AM EDT SAT SEP 20 2008
GAZ117-119-139-141-SCZ048>051-201800-
/O.NEW.KCHS.CF.Y.0014.080920T1500Z-080920T1800Z/
COASTAL BRYAN-COASTAL CHATHAM-COASTAL LIBERTY-COASTAL MCINTOSH-
BEAUFORT-COASTAL COLLETON-CHARLESTON-COASTAL JASPER-
246 AM EDT SAT SEP 20 2008
...COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO
2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CHARLESTON HAS ISSUED A COASTAL
FLOOD ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO
2 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON. 
ANOTHER ROUND OF MINOR COASTAL FLOODING IS EXPECTED LATE THIS
MORNING AND EARLY THIS AFTERNOON ALONG THE SOUTHERN SOUTH
CAROLINA AND NORTHERN GEORGIA COAST. HIGH ASTRONOMICAL TIDES
COMBINED WITH ELEVATED SEA LEVELS DUE TO PERSISTENT NORTHEASTERLY
WINDS AND SWELL WILL CAUSE TIDES TO REACH 7.1 TO 7.3 FEET IN
CHARLESTON HARBOR AND 9.2 TO 9.4 FEET AT FORT PULASKI BETWEEN NOON
AND 1 PM.
A COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY INDICATES THAT ONSHORE WINDS AND TIDES
WILL COMBINE TO GENERATE SOME FLOODING OF LOW AREAS ALONG THE
SHORE. SHALLOW COASTAL FLOODING BEGINS ALONG THE LOWER SOUTH
CAROLINA COAST WHEN TIDES IN THE CHARLESTON HARBOR REACH 7.0 FEET
MEAN LOWER LOW WATER AND ALONG THE NORTH GEORGIA COAST WHEN TIDES
REACH 9.2 FEET MEAN LOWER LOW WATER AT FORT PULASKI.
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