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Mesoscale Discussion 666

April 18, 20088 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 18, 2008, 11:37 PM CDT for 8 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida. It was in force for 53 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Apr 18, 2008, 11:37 PM CDT (04:37 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2008, 12:30 AM CDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL

The radar

The Mobile radar (KMOB), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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: 695 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -12 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 396 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 515 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.8
Supercell composite: 9.2

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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
Apr 18, 8:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 4 more	57 min
Apr 18, 10:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 8 more	54 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2008 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.