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Mesoscale Discussion 1705
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 8, 2017, 2:50 PM EDT for 49 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in North Carolina; 16 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 8, 2017, 2:50 PM EDT (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 8, 2017, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 76 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Banks County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 333 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.2
The text
As transmitted.
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Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 8, 10:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 86 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.