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Mesoscale Discussion 401
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 14, 2008, 4:37 PM CDT for 23 counties in Alabama; 44 counties in Georgia; 9 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2008, 4:37 PM CDT (21:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2008, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Barbour County, AL, Blount County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Henry County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Lee County, AL, Macon County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Baker County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Catoosa County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Clay County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dade County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Houston County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Upson County, GA, Walker County, GA, Webster County, GA, Whitfield County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA, Bledsoe County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Marion County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Van Buren County, TN
The radar
The Atlanta radar (KFFC), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:39 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 nearest sounding before it
Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 58 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
- 884 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 14, 6:58 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Chilton, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette and 12 more | 86 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 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.