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Mesoscale Discussion 342
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 22, 2005, 12:51 PM CST for 14 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 28 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 22, 2005, 12:51 PM CST (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 22, 2005, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 59 counties
Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Webster County, GA, Worth County, GA
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 714 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 508 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 265 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.9
- Supercell composite
- 7.3
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 22, 6:55 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Dallas and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 7:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 5 more | 67 min |
| Mar 22, 7:40 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 8:49 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee and 30 more | 26 min |
| Mar 22, 9:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chambers, Chilton, Clay and 23 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more | 61 min |
| Mar 22, 1:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:43 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Sumter, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 4:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 22, 9:38 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:05 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 1:37 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 15 more | 83 min |
| Mar 22, 3:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 9 more | 34 min |
| Mar 22, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 22, 5:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 6 more | 95 min |
| Mar 22, 10:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 34 more | 36 min |
| Mar 22, 12:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Baldwin, Bleckley, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 32 more | 25 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 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.