Alert archive / South Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1619
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 2, 2016, 5:05 AM EDT for 5 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2016, 5:05 AM EDT (09:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2016, 7:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Marion County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 21 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
- 990 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 784 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 10:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 10:47 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 31 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 2, 12:45 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 41 more | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:51 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 2, 12:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Liberty and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 11 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2016Every 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.