Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1961
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 22, 2003, 3:59 PM EDT for 37 counties in Georgia; 22 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 22, 2003, 3:59 PM EDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 204 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 876 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 12:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 55 more | 119 min |
| Jul 22, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke and 38 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 37 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Quitman | 5 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chester, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon and 10 more | 86 min |
| Jul 22, 3:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Kershaw, Lancaster and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | York | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2003Every mesoscale discussion in 2003
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.