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Mesoscale Discussion 834

May 24, 20174 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2017, 5:25 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2017, 5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2017, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 155 counties

Baker County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Towns County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Walton County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, White County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Hampton 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, York County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:25 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2017-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 335 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2017-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
723 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.6

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 3:45 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Bradford, Clay, Duval, Gilchrist, Levy and 3 more2 hr
May 24, 6:30 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Citrus, Clay and 33 more2 hr
May 24, 6:56 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 30 more8 hr
May 24, 10:26 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bay, Bradford, Calhoun, Citrus and 32 more94 min
May 24, 11:03 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBaker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Nassau, Suwannee10 hr
May 24, 12:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Bradford, Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus and 30 more2 hr
May 24, 2:10 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaker, Columbia, Duval, Hamilton, Madison, Nassau and 1 more95 min
May 24, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrevard, Broward, Charlotte, Clay, Collier, DeSoto and 23 more7 hr
May 23, 8:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta and 15 more93 min
May 23, 8:46 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler and 12 more89 min
May 24, 7:41 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Fannin, Floyd and 8 more3 hr
May 24, 8:29 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 83 more3 hr
May 24, 10:04 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 50 more11 hr
May 24, 3:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clarke and 43 more88 min
May 24, 1:19 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCherokee7 hr
May 24, 3:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlamance, Alleghany, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham and 37 more2 hr
May 24, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAlamance, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Beaufort, Bladen and 52 more6 hr
May 24, 3:50 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCherokee, Graham, Swain55 min
May 24, 6:59 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 15 more91 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.