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Mesoscale Discussion 2153
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 25, 2008, 10:26 AM CDT for 59 counties in Alabama; 16 counties in Florida; 61 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 2008, 10:26 AM CDT (15:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 2008, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 136 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Cullman County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Lee County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Winston 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, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Bartow County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dade County, GA, Decatur County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Grady County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Murray County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph 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, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Webster County, GA, Whitfield 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 675 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 168 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 24, 7:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Clay, Coosa, Fayette, Jefferson and 6 more | 57 min |
| Aug 24, 11:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe | 97 min |
| Aug 25, 1:10 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 25, 4:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 25 more | 86 min |
| Aug 25, 7:28 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 41 more | 13 hr |
| Aug 25, 11:56 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 31 more | 53 min |
| Aug 25, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee, Coosa and 14 more | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.