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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 78
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Feb 26, 2008, 5:12 AM CST for 11 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; 4 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2008, 5:12 AM CST (11:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 26, 2008, 9:13 AM CST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Washington County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Perry County, MS, Stone County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:15 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 20%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 70%
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 26, 5:12 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Clarke, Wilcox | 48 min |
| Feb 26, 5:41 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Mobile, Monroe, Washington, Wilcox | 64 min |
| Feb 26, 6:14 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Crenshaw, Monroe, Wilcox | 61 min |
| Feb 26, 6:45 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile | 30 min |
| Feb 26, 6:45 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MOB | Crenshaw | 15 min |
| Feb 26, 7:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Butler, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 54 min |
| Feb 26, 7:53 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia | 40 min |
| Feb 26, 8:22 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MOB | Okaloosa, Santa Rosa | 35 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 235 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1551 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 67 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 6:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Dale, Geneva, Henry and 1 more | 85 min |
| 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 25, 7:20 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys and 14 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 25, 9:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bolivar, Coahoma, Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower and 1 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Alabama, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Mississippi, 2008Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Florida, 2008Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.