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Mesoscale Discussion 2280
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 25, 2005, 3:41 PM CDT for 46 counties in Alabama; 39 counties in Mississippi; 30 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 2005, 3:41 PM CDT (20:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 2005, 5:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 115 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston County, AL, Adams County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Perry County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Winston County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 92 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
- 126 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 245 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 25, 3:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Sumter, Washington | 9 hr |
| Sep 25, 9:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Lamar, Lauderdale and 5 more | 88 min |
| Sep 25, 11:05 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 37 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Greene and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 25, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 40 more | 114 min |
| Sep 25, 6:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 36 more | 55 min |
| Sep 25, 6:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Cherokee, Choctaw, Cullman, DeKalb and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 24, 8:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma and 34 more | 7 hr |
| Sep 24, 11:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma and 31 more | 89 min |
| Sep 25, 3:07 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Attala, Bolivar, Carroll, Claiborne, Coahoma and 34 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005
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.