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Mesoscale Discussion 169
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2016, 8:42 PM CST for Russell County, Alabama; 45 counties in Georgia; Aiken County, Edgefield County, McCormick County, South Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2016, 8:42 PM CST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 9:45 PM CST
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties
Russell County, AL, Baldwin County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Burke County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Harris County, GA, Houston County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 107 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1253 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 7:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Lee, Randolph | 67 min |
| Mar 1, 9:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Chattahoochee, Columbia and 30 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 10:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bleckley, Bulloch, Burke, Candler, Dodge, Dooly and 13 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.