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Mesoscale Discussion 79

February 5, 20208 parishes in Louisiana; 32 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 5, 2020, 3:41 PM CST for 8 parishes in Louisiana; 32 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 5, 2020, 3:41 PM CST (21:41 UTC)
Expired: Feb 5, 2020, 4:45 PM CST
In force: 64 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 40 counties

Concordia Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, East Feliciana Parish, LA, Pointe Coupee Parish, LA, Saint Helena Parish, LA, Tensas Parish, LA, West Baton Rouge Parish, LA, West Feliciana Parish, LA, Adams County, MS, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Claiborne County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Holmes County, MS, Jefferson County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Montgomery County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Pike County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Warren County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS, Yazoo County, MS

The radar

The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 22 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Tornado Watch 24Feb 5, 5:50 PM CST

The nearest sounding before it

Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 590 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.8
Supercell composite: 3.6

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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
Feb 5, 10:28 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Evangeline, LaSalle and 4 more	92 min
Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Orleans, Saint Bernard, Saint Charles, Saint Tammany	119 min
Feb 5, 11:49 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Caldwell and 24 more	6 hr
Feb 5, 1:19 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ascension, Assumption, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and 9 more	86 min
Feb 5, 1:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Catahoula, Concordia, Madison, Tensas	96 min
Feb 5, 3:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Itawamba, Monroe, Prentiss, Tishomingo	118 min
Feb 5, 4:25 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alcorn, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Itawamba, Lee, Monroe and 4 more	5 hr
Feb 5, 5:06 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Amite, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington, Forrest and 27 more	84 min
Feb 5, 5:50 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clarke, Covington, Forrest, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson Davis and 19 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2020 Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2020 Every mesoscale discussion in 2020

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.