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Mesoscale Discussion 34
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 8, 2008, 4:03 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2008, 4:03 PM CST (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 6:00 PM CST
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 116 counties
Colbert County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Alcorn County, MS, Attala County, MS, Benton County, MS, Calhoun County, MS, Carroll County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Grenada County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Humphreys County, MS, Issaquena County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Lafayette County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Leflore County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marshall County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Sharkey County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Tippah County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Union County, MS, Warren County, MS, Webster County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yalobusha County, MS, Yazoo County, MS, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN
The radar
The Columbus AFB radar (KGWX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Little Rock, AR (KLZK), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -66 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 709 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 466 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 474 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 5.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 5:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Colbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson and 13 more | 54 min |
| Jan 7, 6:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 7, 7:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 29 more | 117 min |
| Jan 7, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson and 16 more | 83 min |
| Jan 8, 1:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Gibson, Perry, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 8, 8:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:59 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Attala, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Copiah and 18 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.