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Mesoscale Discussion 415

April 5, 202230 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 5, 2022, 4:22 PM EDT for 30 counties in Georgia; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 5, 2022, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
Expired: Apr 5, 2022, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Tornado watch 96...98

All 38 counties

Appling County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Long County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 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

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 237 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 170 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.3

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 5, 11:15 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 64 more	2 hr
Apr 5, 12:03 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 69 more	7 hr
Apr 5, 1:22 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Calhoun, Chattahoochee and 36 more	83 min
Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Charlton and 16 more	115 min
Apr 5, 3:15 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Camden, Candler and 20 more	6 hr
Apr 5, 3:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 40 more	90 min
Apr 5, 6:45 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 1 more	90 min
Apr 5, 5:26 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	64 min
Apr 5, 5:47 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg	5 hr
Apr 5, 6:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bamberg, Beaufort, Berkeley, Charleston, Clarendon, Colleton and 5 more	90 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2022 Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2022 Every 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.