Alert archive / South Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2022
Mesoscale Discussion 926
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 26, 2022, 2:25 PM EDT for 6 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 17 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2022, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2022, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 28 counties
Elbert County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Cleveland County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford 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, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 156 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 5:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Jenkins, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond and 1 more | 3 hr |
| May 26, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland and 15 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2022Mesoscale Discussions in North 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.