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Mesoscale Discussion 1014

May 27, 202516 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2025, 7:06 PM EDT for 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 114 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2025, 7:06 PM EDT (23:06 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2025, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 114 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 5%

Counties Appling County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA

The radar

The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:08 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 492 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1113 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 27, 1:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts and 69 more	97 min
May 27, 2:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun, Carroll and 47 more	6 hr
May 27, 3:25 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 44 more	95 min
May 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 78 more	96 min

Nearby

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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.