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Mesoscale Discussion 1126

July 21, 20184 counties in Alabama; 81 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 21, 2018, 8:28 PM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama; 81 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 21, 2018, 8:28 PM CDT (01:28 UTC)
Expired
Jul 21, 2018, 10:00 PM CDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties

Chambers County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Russell County, AL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Hart County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Madison County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Worth County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson 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

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:30 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 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2018-07-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2306 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2018-07-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2306 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.5

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 21, 10:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more2 hr
Jul 22, 10:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston10 hr
Jul 22, 11:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more63 min
Jul 22, 11:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBaldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more7 hr
Jul 22, 12:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCButler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more62 min
Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more2 hr
Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHouston115 min
Jul 22, 6:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrooks, Colquitt, Cook, Echols, Lanier, Lowndes and 1 more66 min
Jul 22, 2:35 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkeley, Georgetown, Horry, Williamsburg2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.