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Mesoscale Discussion 182
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 PM CDT for 32 counties in Alabama; 25 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 9, 2026, 6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2026, 7:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 29...30
All 68 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Calhoun County, AL, Chambers County, AL, Cherokee County, AL, Chilton County, AL, Clay County, AL, Cleburne County, AL, Coosa County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Randolph County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Talladega County, AL, Tallapoosa County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Winston County, AL, Bartow County, GA, Carroll County, GA, Chattooga County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Clayton County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Coweta County, GA, Dade County, GA, DeKalb County, GA, Douglas County, GA, Fayette County, GA, Floyd County, GA, Fulton County, GA, Gordon County, GA, Haralson County, GA, Heard County, GA, Henry County, GA, Meriwether County, GA, Paulding County, GA, Pickens County, GA, Pike County, GA, Polk County, GA, Spalding County, GA, Troup County, GA, Walker County, GA, Calhoun County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Clay County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pontotoc County, MS, Webster County, MS
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 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 9, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Cleburne, Colbert, Cullman and 17 more | 84 min |
| Mar 9, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Chilton and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 9, 12:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Panola, Quitman, Sunflower and 3 more | 87 min |
| Mar 9, 12:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 9, 1:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 6 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2026Every mesoscale discussion in 2026
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.