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Mesoscale Discussion 88
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 21, 2017, 7:41 AM CST for 30 counties in Alabama; 7 counties in Florida; 59 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 21, 2017, 7:41 AM CST (13:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 21, 2017, 9:15 AM CST
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 96 counties
Autauga County, AL, Baldwin County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Pike County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Baker County, GA, Baldwin County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Butts County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Harris County, GA, Heard County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jasper County, GA, Jones County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Monroe County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pike County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Putnam County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Troup County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Upson County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Ft Rucker radar (KEOX), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:44 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 536 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 3:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 36 more | 90 min |
| Jan 21, 3:56 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Bullock, Butler and 36 more | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jan 21, 8:04 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Jackson, Liberty and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 12:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Gulf, Hamilton, Jackson and 6 more | 114 min |
| Jan 21, 1:12 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Columbia, Franklin, Gilchrist, Gulf, Hamilton and 9 more | 57 min |
| Jan 21, 5:05 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon and 4 more | 55 min |
| Jan 21, 12:51 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bryan, Bulloch, Burke and 19 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 20 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017
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.