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Mesoscale Discussion 863

June 24, 20184 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2018, 5:53 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 2018, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2018, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
97 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 55 counties

Banks County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Polk County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Laurens 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, Blount County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Monroe County, TN

The radar

The Greer radar (KGSP), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 238 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 12:00Z on 2018-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1582 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 12:00Z on 2018-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 24 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1582 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 23, 9:23 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGiles, Lawrence, Lincoln, Wayne2 hr
Jun 24, 3:33 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChester, Fayette, Hardeman, Haywood, Lauderdale, McNairy and 3 more87 min
Jun 24, 7:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Carroll, Crockett, Dickson, Dyer, Gibson and 13 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 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.