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Mesoscale Discussion 266
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2016, 2:58 PM CDT for 9 counties in Alabama; 10 counties in Florida; 4 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2016, 2:58 PM CDT (19:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 5:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Barbour County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Pike County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Liberty County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL, Clay County, GA, Early County, GA, Miller County, GA, Seminole County, GA
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1350 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 175 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 263 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 11:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 12:18 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 24, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brevard, Broward, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Osceola and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calhoun, Dixie, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson and 6 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 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.