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Mesoscale Discussion 502
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 15, 2007, 10:20 AM EDT for Chatham County, Georgia; Jasper County, South Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 2007, 10:20 AM EDT (14:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 2007, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Chatham County, GA, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 626 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 630 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 421 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 7.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 8:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 93 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 10:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Jenkins, Lincoln, Richmond, Screven | 95 min |
| Apr 14, 11:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 57 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 15, 2:01 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 39 more | 93 min |
| Apr 15, 5:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:33 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chesterfield, Darlington, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee and 3 more | 87 min |
| Apr 15, 7:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bamberg, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chesterfield, Clarendon and 13 more | 66 min |
| Apr 15, 8:08 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Charleston, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Lancaster, York | 86 min |
Nearby
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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.