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Mesoscale Discussion 24
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 2, 2022, 9:26 PM EST for 21 counties in Georgia; 4 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2022, 9:26 PM EST (02:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2022, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Tornado watch 10
All 25 counties
Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Beaufort County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Jasper County, SC
The radar
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 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 00:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 197 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
- 159 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 86 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 341 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 7:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade, Fannin, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 5 hr |
| Jan 2, 9:53 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Brooks, Bryan and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 2, 11:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Emanuel and 15 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Bryan and 23 more | 118 min |
| Jan 3, 4:25 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dillon, Horry, Marion | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2022Every mesoscale discussion in 2022
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.