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Mesoscale Discussion 583
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 20, 2006, 1:38 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 20, 2006, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Catoosa County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Bolivar County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Panola County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Quitman County, MS, Sunflower County, MS, Tallahatchie County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Washington County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Giles County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Moore County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 168 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
- 488 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1148 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -98 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 7:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler, Chilton and 20 more | 84 min |
| Apr 20, 11:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 24 more | 86 min |
| Apr 20, 11:38 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa, Randolph, Tallapoosa | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 6:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Colbert and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 6:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 20, 1:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 35 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll and 33 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 20, 4:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 27 more | 113 min |
| Apr 20, 11:24 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Carter, Claiborne, Cocke and 19 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.