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Mesoscale Discussion 1133

July 22, 201812 counties in Alabama; 9 counties in Florida

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 22, 2018, 11:27 AM CDT for 12 counties in Alabama; 9 counties in Florida. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 22, 2018, 11:27 AM CDT (16:27 UTC)
Expired: Jul 22, 2018, 12:30 PM CDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 21 counties

Butler County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Coffee County, AL, Conecuh County, AL, Covington County, AL, Crenshaw County, AL, Dale County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Houston County, AL, Monroe County, AL, Wilcox County, AL, Bay County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Escambia County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL, Washington County, FL

The radar

The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 304Jul 22, 11:55 AM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Tallahassee Rgnl, FL (KTLH), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 238 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: 3735 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 715 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.1
Supercell composite: 7.6

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 8:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Chambers, Henry, Lee, Russell	92 min
Jul 21, 10:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw, Escambia and 2 more	2 hr
Jul 22, 10:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	10 hr
Jul 22, 11:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more	7 hr
Jul 22, 12:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 6 more	62 min
Jul 22, 1:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Bullock, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Coffee and 16 more	2 hr
Jul 22, 3:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Houston	115 min
Jul 22, 9:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 24 more	58 min
Jul 22, 6:39 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Columbia, Dixie and 16 more	66 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2018 Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.