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Mesoscale Discussion 1691
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 2, 2018, 2:03 AM CST for Geneva County, Henry County, Houston County, Alabama; 5 counties in Florida; 49 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 2, 2018, 2:03 AM CST (08:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 2, 2018, 4:30 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 57 counties
Geneva County, AL, Henry County, AL, Houston County, AL, Gadsden County, FL, Holmes County, FL, Jackson County, FL, Leon County, FL, Washington County, FL, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Calhoun County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clay County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dooly County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Early County, GA, Echols County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Lee County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Miller County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Randolph County, GA, Seminole County, GA, Sumter County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Terrell County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:06 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 00:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 262 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 472 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 2.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 1, 9:18 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 87 min |
| Dec 1, 11:27 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 93 min |
| Dec 2, 2:48 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 6:00 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jackson | 2 hr |
| Dec 2, 11:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Leon | 88 min |
| Dec 2, 9:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brantley and 38 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2018Every 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.