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Mesoscale Discussion 191
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 16, 2014, 7:51 AM CDT for Coffee County, Geneva County, Houston County, Alabama; 6 counties in Florida. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2014, 7:51 AM CDT (12:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2014, 9:15 AM CDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
Counties Coffee County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:51 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
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 891 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 423 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 431 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 16, 4:20 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 115 min |
| Mar 16, 4:51 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 6:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Monroe, Washington and 1 more | 89 min |
| Mar 16, 8:59 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston and 1 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 16, 10:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Houston | 93 min |
| Mar 16, 1:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hamilton | 118 min |
| Mar 16, 2:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lafayette, Taylor, Wakulla | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.