Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 427
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 15, 2008, 7:41 PM EDT for 58 counties in Georgia; 21 counties in North Carolina; 41 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 15, 2008, 7:41 PM EDT (23:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 15, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 120 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Wayne 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, 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, 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, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:42 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 585 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 636 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 8:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga and 46 more | 64 min |
| Mar 14, 11:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butts, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb, Douglas and 26 more | 57 min |
| Mar 15, 1:39 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd and 7 more | 66 min |
| Mar 15, 3:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 55 more | 93 min |
| Mar 15, 4:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 42 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:18 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Jenkins and 7 more | 117 min |
| Mar 15, 10:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 43 more | 67 min |
| Mar 15, 11:02 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 73 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 67 more | 83 min |
| Mar 15, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Burke and 57 more | 84 min |
| Mar 15, 3:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Carroll, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, DeKalb and 11 more | 67 min |
| Mar 15, 3:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Gordon, Murray, Walker and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch and 73 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 15, 5:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 40 more | 64 min |
| Mar 15, 6:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Floyd and 14 more | 28 min |
| Mar 15, 11:30 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover, Pender and 4 more | 60 min |
| Mar 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 17 more | 25 min |
| Mar 15, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 19 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in North 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.