Alert archive / Georgia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006

Mesoscale Discussion 867

May 14, 200611 counties in Alabama; 34 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 14, 2006, 2:22 PM CDT for 11 counties in Alabama; 34 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 2006, 2:22 PM CDT (19:22 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 2006, 4:15 PM CDT
In force
113 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Houston County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 2006-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 298 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 2006-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
195 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 11:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 15 more54 min
May 13, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCElbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Rabun, Stephens5 hr
May 13, 7:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee, Clayton, Coweta and 20 more54 min
May 13, 10:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBleckley, Crawford, Crisp, Dodge, Dooly, Houston and 13 more60 min
May 14, 4:00 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart, Madison and 1 more90 min
May 14, 2:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 11 more6 hr
May 14, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAppling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill and 54 more6 hr
May 14, 3:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 13 more92 min
May 14, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCJenkins, Screven5 hr

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.