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Mesoscale Discussion 2377

November 14, 2008Russell County, Alabama; 55 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 14, 2008, 3:43 AM CST for Russell County, Alabama; 55 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Nov 14, 2008, 3:43 AM CST (09:43 UTC)
Expired: Nov 14, 2008, 5:15 AM CST
In force: 92 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 56 counties

Russell County, AL, Appling County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA

The radar

The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1315 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.2

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 14, 3:05 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Henry, Houston	115 min
Nov 14, 2:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 69 more	58 min
Nov 14, 2:28 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atkinson, Baker, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien, Bibb and 53 more	62 min
Nov 14, 5:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Berrien and 55 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2008 Every 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.