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Mesoscale Discussion 762

May 5, 200678 counties in Georgia; Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 5, 2006, 12:59 PM EDT for 78 counties in Georgia; Allendale County, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 5, 2006, 12:59 PM EDT (16:59 UTC)
Expired
May 5, 2006, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties

Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Butts County, GA, Candler County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Macon County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Newton County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Allendale County, SC, Hampton County, SC

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:00 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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 147 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 12:00Z on 2006-05-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 162 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2006-05-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 21 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.