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Mesoscale Discussion 346
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 4, 2008, 11:56 AM EST for 10 counties in Florida; 85 counties in Georgia; Allendale County, South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2008, 11:56 AM EST (16:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 2:00 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties
Baker County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Madison County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Camden County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Allendale County, SC
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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 244 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 967 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 369 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 451 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 9:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Escambia, Santa Rosa | 61 min |
| Mar 3, 10:56 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 7 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:30 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 6 more | 90 min |
| Mar 4, 4:21 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:09 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chattooga, Dade, Walker | 66 min |
| Mar 4, 2:25 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Floyd, Gordon and 7 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Chattahoochee and 51 more | 95 min |
| Mar 4, 11:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa and 48 more | 118 min |
| Mar 4, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley and 96 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 2:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bibb, Butts, Clarke and 40 more | 90 min |
| Mar 4, 4:31 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lincoln | 8 hr |
| Mar 4, 5:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty and 2 more | 57 min |
| Mar 4, 6:27 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Chatham, Columbia and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 4, 6:33 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Calhoun, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon and 10 more | 87 min |
| Mar 4, 2:03 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Cherokee, Chester, Fairfield, Greenville, Greenwood and 10 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.