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Mesoscale Discussion 484

April 29, 201423 counties in Alabama; Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 29, 2014, 6:55 PM CDT for 23 counties in Alabama; Lincoln County, Moore County, Tennessee. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 29, 2014, 6:55 PM CDT (23:55 UTC)
Expired
Apr 29, 2014, 8:30 PM CDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties

Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Lincoln County, TN, Moore County, TN

The radar

The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2014-04-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Birmingham, AL at 12:00Z on 2014-04-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 3 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-219 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1562 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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 28, 7:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCColbert, Cullman, Fayette, Franklin, Jackson, Lamar and 10 more93 min
Apr 28, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAutauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 51 more11 hr
Apr 28, 9:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 23 more86 min
Apr 28, 10:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Etowah, Jefferson, Marshall, St. Clair and 2 more97 min
Apr 28, 11:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAutauga, Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton and 21 more85 min
Apr 29, 1:38 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBaldwin, Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Coffee and 18 more67 min
Apr 29, 1:56 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCCoffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston9 hr
Apr 29, 4:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBarbour, Chambers, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 3 more89 min
Apr 29, 12:46 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaldwin, Mobile, Washington10 hr
Apr 29, 3:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBibb, Blount, Choctaw, Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb and 20 more33 min
Apr 29, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBibb, Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Colbert and 27 more4 hr
Apr 29, 3:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClarke, Conecuh, Covington, Escambia, Monroe92 min
Apr 29, 6:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCChoctaw, Washington89 min
Apr 28, 9:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Campbell, Claiborne, Grainger, Morgan, Scott and 1 more65 min
Apr 28, 11:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBlount, Bradley, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 10 more7 hr
Apr 29, 2:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCannon, Cheatham, Clay, Davidson, DeKalb, Jackson and 8 more65 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.