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Mesoscale Discussion 13

January 5, 200734 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 94 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 5, 2007, 5:46 AM CST for 34 counties in Alabama; 17 counties in Florida; 94 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 5, 2007, 5:46 AM CST (11:46 UTC)
Expired
Jan 5, 2007, 6:45 AM CST
In force
59 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 145 counties

Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Banks County, GA, Barrow County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clarke County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Forsyth County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Grady County, GA, Greene County, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jackson County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Morgan County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Newton County, GA, Oconee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Rockdale County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walton County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth 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 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 178 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 00:00Z on 2007-01-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2007-01-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
168 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.

000 
ACUS11 KWNS 051147
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 051146 
GAZ000-FLZ000-ALZ000-051245-

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0013
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0546 AM CST FRI JAN 05 2007

AREAS AFFECTED...AL/WRN FL PANHANDLE/PARTS OF GA

CONCERNING...TORNADO WATCH 3...

VALID 051146Z - 051245Z

THREAT FOR TORNADOES...MAINLY EMBEDDED WITHIN THE SQUALL LINE...AND
THREAT FOR DAMAGING WINDS TO CONTINUE TO SPREAD EWD ACROSS AL AND
THE WRN FL PANHANDLE.  NEW WW MAY BE NEEDED BY 13-14Z TO THE EAST OF
WW 3.

AT 11Z...REGIONAL RADARS INDICATED A SQUALL LINE EXTENDING FROM
NORTH CENTRAL AL /ERN CULLMAN AND BLOUNT COUNTIES/ SWD INTO SRN AL
AND THE WRN FL PANHANDLE /ESCAMBIA AND SANTA ROSA COUNTIES/. 
CURRENT SPEED OF THIS LINE /EWD AT 25 KT/ SUGGESTS IT WILL MOVE
THROUGH THE NERN AND EAST CENTRAL PARTS OF AL BY 14Z...AND REACH THE
SERN PART OF AL AND CENTRAL FL PANHANDLE BY 15Z.

LOW LEVEL WAA AND RICH MOISTURE /SURFACE DEWPOINTS IN THE LOW-MID
60S/ WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NWD THROUGH ERN AL AND GA IN ADVANCE OF
THE SQUALL LINE THIS MORNING.  LOW LCLS WITHIN THE MOIST AIR MASS
AND SELY SURFACE WINDS...BENEATH DEEP SSWLY FLOW...ENHANCING LOW
LEVEL SHEAR VALUES WILL MAINTAIN THREAT FOR TORNADOES...ESPECIALLY
WITH EMBEDDED ROTATING STORMS ALONG THE SQUALL LINE.

..PETERS.. 01/05/2007

...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...

ATTN...WFO...GSP...JAX...FFC...TAE...BMX...HUN...MOB...

29658833 31238718 33158652 34528673 34598496 34558357
33198291 31508297 30418343 29088448

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 4, 8:47 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCChoctaw, Mobile, Washington7 hr
Jan 5, 12:47 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 57 more28 min
Jan 5, 1:15 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 48 more6 hr
Jan 5, 2:26 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Mobile, Washington64 min
Jan 5, 3:13 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 47 more62 min
Jan 5, 7:21 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Coffee and 16 more8 hr
Jan 5, 9:02 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne and 17 more118 min
Jan 5, 11:31 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson and 4 more119 min
Jan 5, 1:16 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 17 more119 min
Jan 5, 1:49 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 14 more7 hr
Jan 5, 5:35 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 4 more85 min
Jan 5, 11:06 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBanks, Elbert, Forsyth, Franklin, Habersham, Hall and 6 more
Jan 5, 11:41 AM CSTTornado WatchSPCBurke, Columbia, Elbert, Franklin, Habersham, Hart and 5 more8 hr
Jan 5, 2:04 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBurke, Columbia, Glascock, Jefferson, Lincoln, McDuffie and 3 more86 min
Jan 5, 3:26 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAppling, Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham and 13 more34 min
Jan 5, 3:35 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Emanuel and 11 more7 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.