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Mesoscale Discussion 537
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 3, 2016, 2:07 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 2016, 2:07 PM CDT (19:07 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 87 counties
Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Washington County, FL, 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, Brooks County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Candler County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Grady 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, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Macon County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Schley County, GA, Screven County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Warren County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, McCormick County, SC
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 721 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 5:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 96 min |
| May 3, 3:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Gadsden, Jackson, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and 2 more | 8 hr |
| May 3, 1:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke | 8 hr |
| May 3, 12:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cherokee, Chester, Chesterfield, Darlington, Dillon, Fairfield and 8 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.