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Mesoscale Discussion 2050

August 22, 200547 counties in Georgia; 18 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 22, 2005, 1:37 PM EDT for 47 counties in Georgia; 18 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 22, 2005, 1:37 PM EDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Aug 22, 2005, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 65 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2005-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4461 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2005-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -32 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
4461 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.