Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1697
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 6, 2008, 1:44 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2008, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 6, 2008, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 103 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Walton County, GA, White County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Carter County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Highland County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Summers County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:45 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 222 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
- 831 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 6, 6:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Dodge, Emanuel, Jenkins, Johnson, Laurens and 6 more | 59 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.