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Mesoscale Discussion 109
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 15, 2016, 10:32 PM EST for 11 counties in Florida; 16 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2016, 10:32 PM EST (03:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2016, 11:30 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Dixie County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Jefferson County, FL, Lafayette County, FL, Leon County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Madison County, FL, Suwannee County, FL, Taylor County, FL, Wakulla County, FL, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Turner County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Tallahassee radar (KTLH), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:31 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 nearest sounding before it
Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 940 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 366 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 383 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 7:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Jefferson, Lafayette, Leon and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Charlotte, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Highlands, Hillsborough and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:19 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brevard, Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee and 15 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:59 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hendry, Palm Beach | 61 min |
| Feb 16, 7:36 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Miami-Dade, Monroe | 54 min |
| Feb 16, 1:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, Liberty | 64 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.