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Mesoscale Discussion 308
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 26, 2008, 2:02 PM EST for 26 counties in Florida; 37 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 2:02 PM EST (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 63 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Clay County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Dixie County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gilchrist County, FL, Hamilton County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Levy County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Marion County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Union County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bibb County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crawford County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Echols County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Grady County, GA, Houston County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lamar County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Peach County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Twiggs County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler 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
Jacksonville, FL (KJAX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -266 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 26, 6:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Escambia, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 4 hr |
| Feb 26, 7:50 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa and 2 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 8:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 26, 10:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 83 min |
| Feb 26, 10:35 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Gadsden, Gulf and 13 more | 85 min |
| Feb 26, 11:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Dixie and 18 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Charlotte, Citrus, DeSoto, Glades and 22 more | 94 min |
| Feb 26, 3:41 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Citrus, DeSoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands and 14 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:41 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 66 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 26, 11:25 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bryan, Bulloch, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans and 6 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Mesoscale 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.