Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2009
Mesoscale Discussion 186
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2009, 3:40 PM EST for 47 counties in Georgia; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2009, 3:40 PM EST (20:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2009, 7:45 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens 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 Greer radar (KGSP), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:43 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 301 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 9:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 37 more | 57 min |
| Mar 1, 1:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 30 more | 95 min |
| Mar 1, 2:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Camden and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:04 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Candler, Dodge, Emanuel, Jenkins, Johnson and 6 more | 86 min |
| Mar 1, 6:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Candler, Charlton and 15 more | 118 min |
| Mar 1, 8:18 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Chatham, Glynn, McIntosh | 87 min |
| Mar 1, 12:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Butts and 65 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2009Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2009Every mesoscale discussion in 2009
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.