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Mesoscale Discussion 2120
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2008, 11:32 AM EDT for 26 counties in Florida. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2008, 11:32 AM EDT (15:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2008, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 26 counties
Brevard County, FL, Broward County, FL, Charlotte County, FL, Collier County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Lee County, FL, Marion County, FL, Martin County, FL, Miami-Dade County, FL, Monroe County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Polk County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Volusia County, FL
The radar
The Melbourne radar (KMLB), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:33 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
Tampa Bay, FL (KTBW), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 671 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 10:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 13 more | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 6:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands and 11 more | 31 min |
| Aug 19, 7:05 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Flagler, Indian River, Lake, Orange, Osceola and 3 more | 86 min |
| Aug 19, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Flagler, Indian River, Orange, Osceola, Putnam and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008Every 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.