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Mesoscale Discussion 1008

May 24, 200813 counties in Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2008, 6:20 PM EDT for 13 counties in Florida. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2008, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2008, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Brevard County, FL, Broward County, FL, Glades County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Martin County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Volusia County, FL

The radar

The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 1200 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 819 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 1.5

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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
May 24, 10:18 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Flagler and 24 more	57 min
May 24, 11:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 18 more	10 hr
May 24, 1:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 17 more	57 min
May 24, 3:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brevard, Broward, Glades, Hendry, Indian River, Martin and 5 more	57 min
May 24, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau, Saint Johns	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.