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Mesoscale Discussion 519

April 7, 200523 counties in Florida; Camden County, Charlton County, Glynn County, Georgia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 7, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT for 23 counties in Florida; Camden County, Charlton County, Glynn County, Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 2005, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 2005, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties

Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Citrus County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hernando County, FL, Hillsborough County, FL, Lake County, FL, Levy County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Pasco County, FL, Pinellas County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Union County, FL, Volusia County, FL, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Glynn County, GA

The nearest sounding before it

Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-04-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 31 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Tampa Bay, FL at 12:00Z on 2005-04-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 237 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
31 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-253 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1011 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
309 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 6, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more4 hr
Apr 6, 11:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBay, Calhoun, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson, Walton and 1 more54 min
Apr 7, 4:53 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGulf, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon, Liberty, Madison and 2 more2 hr
Apr 7, 8:52 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Lafayette and 4 more113 min
Apr 7, 11:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 17 more8 hr
Apr 7, 4:18 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlachua, Baker, Bradford, Brevard, Charlotte, Citrus and 36 more87 min
Apr 7, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBrevard, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 20 more6 hr
Apr 7, 7:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBrevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 17 more55 min
Apr 7, 12:50 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCarroll, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Coweta, Floyd, Haralson and 6 more55 min
Apr 7, 12:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clayton and 27 more117 min
Apr 7, 5:52 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow, Ben Hill and 92 more23 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.