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Mesoscale Discussion 2162
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 26, 2008, 9:37 AM EDT for 78 counties in Georgia; 18 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 26, 2008, 9:37 AM EDT (13:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 26, 2008, 10:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:40 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 150 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
- 825 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 373 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.3
- Supercell composite
- 13.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 26, 12:36 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 57 more | 84 min |
| Aug 26, 2:36 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay and 39 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 26, 5:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dooly and 16 more | 90 min |
| Aug 26, 8:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb and 96 more | 89 min |
| Aug 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien and 101 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien and 96 more | 58 min |
| Aug 26, 4:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 89 more | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 6:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 29 more | 61 min |
| Aug 26, 6:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke and 53 more | 12 hr |
| Aug 26, 11:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Lancaster, Marlboro and 1 more | 57 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.