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Mesoscale Discussion 1556

June 30, 20034 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 30, 2003, 9:57 AM CDT for 4 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 30, 2003, 9:57 AM CDT (14:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 30, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:00 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.

Tornado Watch 607Jun 30, 10:30 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 251 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 152 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 203 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 30, 6:55 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Washington	9 hr
Jun 30, 10:30 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia	6 hr
Jun 30, 11:23 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mobile, Washington	2 hr
Jun 30, 1:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia	119 min
Jun 30, 3:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile, Washington	92 min
Jun 30, 3:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

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.