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Mesoscale Discussion 772

May 5, 20035 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2003, 5:40 PM CDT (22:40 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2003, 7:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 129 counties

Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Ashley County, AR, Bradley County, AR, Chicot County, AR, Desha County, AR, Drew County, AR, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Troup County, GA, Walker County, GA, Walton County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Alcorn County, MS, Benton County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Coahoma County, MS, DeSoto County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tate County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Tunica County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Chester County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Moore County, TN, Wayne County, TN

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 133 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1048 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2003-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 299 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1048 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
616 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
299 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
345 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
1.7
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 5, 4:18 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Lauderdale57 min
May 5, 4:55 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison and 1 more6 hr
May 5, 6:07 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Marshall83 min
May 5, 6:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Marshall3 hr
May 5, 7:11 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone and 2 more2 hr
May 5, 8:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 13 more6 hr
May 5, 9:05 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hale and 13 more115 min
May 5, 9:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar and 10 more5 hr
May 5, 10:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more3 hr
May 5, 11:06 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Greene and 12 more114 min
May 5, 12:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay and 11 more113 min
May 5, 2:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 32 more62 min
May 5, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin and 15 more7 hr
May 4, 7:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 21 more86 min
May 4, 7:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 7 more116 min
May 4, 9:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 7 more2 hr
May 4, 9:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 29 more93 min
May 5, 12:50 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 34 more5 hr
May 5, 1:20 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene and 7 more6 hr
May 5, 9:56 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 33 more2 hr
May 5, 10:40 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 21 more5 hr
May 5, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross and 21 more3 hr
May 5, 1:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland and 17 more2 hr
May 5, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 62 more7 hr
May 5, 5:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia and 24 more117 min
May 4, 11:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 29 more23 min
May 4, 11:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBedford, Cannon, Cheatham, Clay, Coffee, Davidson and 30 more5 hr
May 5, 2:31 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 42 more89 min
May 5, 3:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Claiborne and 25 more6 hr
May 5, 11:59 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCPickett61 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2003Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.