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Mesoscale Discussion 802

May 10, 200527 counties in Alabama; 4 counties in Georgia; Lowndes County, Noxubee County, Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2005, 1:35 PM CDT for 27 counties in Alabama; 4 counties in Georgia; Lowndes County, Noxubee County, Mississippi. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 10, 2005, 1:35 PM CDT (18:35 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2005, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 115 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall 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, Winston County, AL, Carroll County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Polk County, GA, Lowndes County, MS, Noxubee County, MS

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 233 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 120 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -127 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1150 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 10, 11:33 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more	117 min
May 10, 6:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	DeKalb, Jackson	55 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2005 Every 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.