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Mesoscale Discussion 372

March 7, 20089 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 7, 2008, 3:51 PM CST for 9 counties in Alabama; 19 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 7, 2008, 3:51 PM CST (21:51 UTC)
Expired: Mar 7, 2008, 5:15 PM CST
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 28 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Russell County, AL, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA, Harris County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Pike County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Troup County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 148 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 476 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 604 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.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 7, 2:49 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Dale and 5 more	86 min
Mar 7, 5:13 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	2 hr
Mar 7, 5:45 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Brantley, Camden, Charlton, Clinch, Echols, Glynn and 1 more	5 hr

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.