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Mesoscale Discussion 2537

November 19, 20039 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in North Carolina; 18 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 19, 2003, 5:14 AM EST for 9 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in North Carolina; 18 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 19, 2003, 5:14 AM EST (10:14 UTC)
Expired: Nov 19, 2003, 6:15 AM EST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 43 counties

Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Union County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Tornado Watch 967Nov 19, 7:25 AM EST

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 266 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: 67 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 553 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 409 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 18, 7:45 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Early, Harris, Lamar and 17 more	60 min
Nov 18, 7:46 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Early, Harris, Lamar and 17 more	59 min
Nov 18, 9:10 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Colquitt, Crawford and 30 more	95 min
Nov 18, 10:45 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 40 more	6 hr
Nov 19, 12:22 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 41 more	83 min
Nov 19, 1:18 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 42 more	57 min
Nov 19, 2:20 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts and 37 more	6 hr
Nov 19, 2:43 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley, Brooks, Calhoun and 31 more	92 min
Nov 19, 4:20 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 41 more	6 hr
Nov 19, 11:29 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Habersham, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union	61 min
Nov 19, 6:31 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick and 47 more	119 min
Nov 19, 7:25 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Bladen and 48 more	6 hr
Nov 19, 10:57 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 25 more	93 min
Nov 19, 11:25 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more	6 hr
Nov 19, 2:27 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 10 more	93 min
Nov 19, 3:59 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Currituck, Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell	61 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2003 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.