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Mesoscale Discussion 528
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 4, 2019, 12:35 PM EDT for 53 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in North Carolina; 20 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 4, 2019, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 4, 2019, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 84 counties
Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, White County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Buncombe County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson 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, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 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, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 872 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 4, 10:41 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Cherokee, Cobb, Dawson, Fannin and 17 more | 94 min |
| May 4, 12:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Early, Quitman, Stewart, Troup | 77 min |
| May 4, 4:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Early, Miller, Quitman, Randolph, Seminole and 1 more | 92 min |
| May 4, 5:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham and 38 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in North 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.