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Mesoscale Discussion 992

May 26, 20064 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2006, 7:21 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 26, 2006, 7:21 PM EDT (23:21 UTC)
Expired: May 26, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 247 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Murray County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Martin County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 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 nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1378 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
May 26, 2:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 11 more	9 hr
May 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens	7 hr
May 26, 4:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 37 more	6 hr
May 26, 2:11 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alleghany, Ashe, Stokes, Surry	94 min
May 26, 11:42 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell, Madison, Mitchell and 3 more	2 hr
May 26, 1:57 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 62 more	93 min
May 25, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Buchanan, Dickenson, Lee, Russell, Scott, Washington and 3 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.