Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 194
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 5, 2003, 10:28 PM EST for 25 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 62 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2003, 10:28 PM EST (03:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2003, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Greene County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Wilkes County, GA
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:32 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
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -166 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 717 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 8:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Cherokee and 34 more | 63 min |
| Mar 5, 9:10 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clarke and 40 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:49 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattooga, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Walker, Whitfield | 116 min |
| Mar 5, 10:52 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Emanuel, Glascock, Jefferson, Jenkins and 7 more | 53 min |
| Mar 5, 11:35 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 6, 12:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie and 4 more | 60 min |
| Mar 6, 3:16 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Burke, Butts, Clarke and 36 more | 59 min |
| Mar 6, 4:30 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Troup | 90 min |
| Mar 6, 6:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattahoochee, Clay, Crawford, Harris, Lee, Macon and 12 more | 96 min |
| Mar 6, 8:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee, Crawford and 32 more | 83 min |
| Mar 6, 12:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks, Camden and 15 more | 2 hr |
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.