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Mesoscale Discussion 574

April 28, 201316 counties in Alabama; 39 counties in Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 28, 2013, 12:37 PM CDT for 16 counties in Alabama; 39 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2013, 12:37 PM CDT (17:37 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2013, 2:00 PM CDT
In force
83 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 55 counties

Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Troup County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA (KFFC), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 187 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2013-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Peachtre/Fal Fld, GA at 12:00Z on 2013-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 308 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
308 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
379 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 27, 8:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBlount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 12 more64 min
Apr 27, 10:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Lauderdale2 hr
Apr 28, 5:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Butts, Columbia and 32 more66 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.