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Mesoscale Discussion 303
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 26, 2008, 6:50 AM CST for 7 counties in Alabama; 8 counties in Florida; 59 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 6:50 AM CST (12:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 8:15 AM CST
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 74 counties
Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Appling County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Candler County, GA, Chattahoochee County, GA, Clay County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Lee County, GA, Macon County, GA, Marion County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Quitman County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Schley County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Stewart County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Taylor County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Washington County, GA, Webster County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Wilkinson County, GA, Worth County, GA
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 534 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 499 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 11:20 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Clarke, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 7 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 12:10 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Chilton, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette and 12 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 4:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Coosa and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:39 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:22 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 83 min |
| Feb 26, 9:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 10:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 20 more | 88 min |
| Feb 26, 1:41 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades and 22 more | 94 min |
| Feb 26, 2:41 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 10:25 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 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.