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Mesoscale Discussion 1223

July 8, 201614 counties in Georgia; 17 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 11:52 PM EDT for 14 counties in Georgia; 17 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 8, 2016, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2016, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 40%

All 31 counties

Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Washington County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:54 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 00:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 3204 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 181 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 14.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 9:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield and 13 more	37 min
Jul 8, 10:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dillon, Marlboro	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2016 Every mesoscale discussion in 2016

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.