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Mesoscale Discussion 2193
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 31, 2008, 7:47 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2008, 7:47 PM CDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2008, 9:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Baldwin County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Plaquemines Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, George County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:48 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1135 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 157 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.3
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 31, 8:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 10 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Sep 1, 3:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 114 min |
| Sep 1, 6:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 9 hr |
| Sep 1, 9:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe and 1 more | 86 min |
| Sep 1, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 1, 6:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 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.