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Mesoscale Discussion 876
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 7, 2014, 12:42 PM EDT for 21 counties in Georgia; 38 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 7, 2014, 12:42 PM EDT (16:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 7, 2014, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 59 counties
Banks County, GA, Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, 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, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 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, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 260 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 697 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 9:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South 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.