Alert archive / South Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 558
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 4, 2008, 5:39 PM EDT for Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia; 6 counties in North Carolina; 27 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 4, 2008, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 4, 2008, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Burke County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Anson County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 510 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 4, 1:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 51 more | 87 min |
| Apr 4, 2:27 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 75 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll and 38 more | 88 min |
| Apr 4, 6:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Early, Quitman | 88 min |
| Apr 4, 6:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Crisp, Dodge and 17 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 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.