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Mesoscale Discussion 739
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 3, 2006, 1:07 PM CDT for 18 counties in Alabama; 36 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 113 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2006, 1:07 PM CDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2006, 3:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 113 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 54 counties
Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Randolph County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Butts County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Macon County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Newton County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:12 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 nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 288 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1189 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 89 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 4:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale | 54 min |
| May 3, 6:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lauderdale | 86 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 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.