Alert archive / South Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 225
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 29, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia; 9 counties in North Carolina; 31 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 29, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 45 counties
Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Screven County, GA, Anson County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland 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, Colleton County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper 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, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:29 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 5:58 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Charlton, Clinch and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe and 17 more | 119 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.