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Mesoscale Discussion 325
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 1, 2016, 10:40 AM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; 75 counties in Georgia; 16 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 1, 2016, 10:40 AM CDT (15:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 1, 2016, 12:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 99 counties
Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Jones County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Beaufort County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Colleton County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Jasper County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Robins AFB radar (KJGX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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 12:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -154 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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 31, 7:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, DeKalb and 6 more | 94 min |
| Mar 31, 8:14 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 8 more | 18 hr |
| Mar 31, 10:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 14 more | 64 min |
| Apr 1, 2:03 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bullock, Dallas, Elmore, Lee, Lowndes and 5 more | 57 min |
| Apr 1, 4:46 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale, Henry and 2 more | 89 min |
| Apr 1, 6:26 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 12 hr |
| Apr 1, 1:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston | 60 min |
| Mar 31, 7:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brooks, Colquitt, Cook, Decatur, Grady, Lowndes and 3 more | 96 min |
| Apr 1, 12:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Dodge, Elbert and 18 more | 89 min |
| Apr 1, 1:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 50 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 1, 4:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Clinch and 9 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.