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Mesoscale Discussion 149
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 3, 2019, 3:19 PM EST for 47 counties in Georgia; 25 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2019, 3:19 PM EST (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2019, 5:15 PM EST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 72 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Horry County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 719 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 10:59 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Early, Harris and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:24 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb, Bleckley and 83 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:02 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 1:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harris, Muscogee | 32 min |
| Mar 3, 3:06 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Houston, Macon, Marion, Muscogee, Peach and 1 more | 54 min |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Muscogee | 26 min |
| Mar 3, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 18 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Twiggs, Wilkinson | 24 min |
| Mar 3, 4:22 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Decatur, Early, Miller, Seminole | 113 min |
| Mar 3, 4:28 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Crawford, Emanuel and 15 more | 62 min |
| Mar 3, 6:15 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 56 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.