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Mesoscale Discussion 361

March 23, 200519 counties in Alabama; 59 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 23, 2005, 2:11 AM CST for 19 counties in Alabama; 59 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Mar 23, 2005, 2:11 AM CST (08:11 UTC)
Expired
Mar 23, 2005, 4:15 AM CST
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 78 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkes County, GA

The radar

The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 00:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 63 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2005-03-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 00:00Z on 2005-03-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 176 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
454 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
240 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 22, 6:09 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke and 22 more2 hr
Mar 22, 6:50 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 26 more7 hr
Mar 22, 7:47 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Cullman, Franklin, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Marion and 1 more88 min
Mar 22, 9:36 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 49 more84 min
Mar 22, 10:11 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Jackson, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Morgan2 hr
Mar 22, 11:30 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa and 13 more7 hr
Mar 22, 11:37 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 19 more83 min
Mar 23, 12:35 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCChambers, Lee, Randolph7 hr
Mar 23, 1:27 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 27 more63 min
Mar 22, 6:24 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChatham36 min
Mar 22, 7:39 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerrien, Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Grady and 8 more36 min
Mar 23, 1:35 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrooks, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes, Seminole, Thomas85 min
Mar 23, 3:16 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bleckley and 36 more89 min

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.