Alert archive / Tennessee / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 82
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 13, 2005, 9:53 AM CST for 7 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 13, 2005, 9:53 AM CST (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 13, 2005, 12:00 PM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 147 counties
Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, Walker County, GA, White County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Buncombe County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Swain County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Boone County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -152 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 482 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 632 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 5:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Greene, Hale, Marengo and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 13, 7:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Lamar and 7 more | 87 min |
| Jan 13, 7:15 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 31 more | 63 min |
| Jan 13, 10:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:40 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts and 55 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:19 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Brantley, Bulloch and 41 more | 41 min |
| Jan 13, 11:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clark and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 12:48 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd and 21 more | 117 min |
| Jan 12, 9:28 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake | 32 min |
| Jan 13, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marshall, Ohio | 4 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson, Kanawha and 9 more | 31 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 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.