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Mesoscale Discussion 445

April 10, 202513 counties in Georgia; 10 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 10, 2025, 8:45 PM EDT for 13 counties in Georgia; 10 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 10, 2025, 8:45 PM EDT (00:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 10, 2025, 10:45 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 23 counties

Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Saluda County, SC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 210 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: 293 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1948 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 74 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.8

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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 11, 4:51 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Camden, Charlton	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2025 Every mesoscale discussion in 2025

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.