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Mesoscale Discussion 92
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 25, 2024, 1:34 PM CST for 27 counties in Alabama; 11 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2024, 1:34 PM CST (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2024, 3:30 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 11
All 38 counties
Autauga County, AL, Barbour County, AL, Bullock County, AL, Butler County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Dallas County, AL, Elmore County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Lee County, AL, Lowndes County, AL, Macon County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Montgomery County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pike County, AL, Russell County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Harris County, GA, Marion County, GA, Muscogee County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Talbot County, GA, Troup County, GA, Webster County, GA
The radar
The Maxwell AFB radar (KMXX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 152 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 25, 10:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Greene, Hale, Marengo, Sumter, Washington | 113 min |
| Jan 25, 10:54 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Dallas, Marengo, Monroe, Sumter and 2 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2024Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2024Every mesoscale discussion in 2024
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.