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Mesoscale Discussion 709

May 5, 20096 counties in Georgia; 6 counties in North Carolina; 17 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2009, 2:03 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia; 6 counties in North Carolina; 17 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 5, 2009, 2:03 PM EDT (18:03 UTC)
Expired: May 5, 2009, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 29 counties

Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Screven County, GA, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Pender County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Marion County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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.

Tornado Watch 246May 5, 5:45 PM EDT

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 36 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1007 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -49 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 841 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 5, 10:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more	8 hr
May 5, 4:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Effingham, Evans	55 min
May 5, 5:37 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 9 more	53 min
May 4, 9:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Chowan, Columbus and 24 more	97 min
May 5, 9:43 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 6 more	92 min
May 5, 5:45 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus, Camden and 45 more	5 hr
May 5, 7:10 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden, Chatham and 41 more	65 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2009 Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2009 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2009 Every 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.