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Mesoscale Discussion 59

January 25, 202620 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 15 counties in South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 25, 2026, 12:57 PM EST for 20 counties in Georgia; 5 counties in North Carolina; 15 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 25, 2026, 12:57 PM EST (17:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 25, 2026, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Freezing rain

All 40 counties

Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Madison County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Walton County, GA, White 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, Edgefield 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), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:57 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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 180 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 373 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 975 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1097 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jan 25, 10:55 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 12 more	2 hr
Jan 25, 11:49 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Colquitt, Crisp and 20 more	7 hr
Jan 25, 1:32 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baker, Calhoun, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early and 10 more	88 min
Jan 25, 3:55 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Clinch and 19 more	95 min
Jan 25, 2:20 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Bertie, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba and 42 more	6 hr
Jan 25, 3:27 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Anson, Ashe, Burke and 32 more	3 hr
Jan 25, 6:50 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bertie, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 26 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2026 Every mesoscale discussion in 2026

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.