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Mesoscale Discussion 288
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 13, 2005, 9:17 PM CST for 22 counties in Alabama; Avoyelles Parish, Concordia Parish, Louisiana; 26 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 13, 2005, 9:17 PM CST (03:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 13, 2005, 10:45 PM CST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Autauga County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Avoyelles Parish, LA, Concordia Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:18 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 491 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1546 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 13, 6:49 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 18 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 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.