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Mesoscale Discussion 96
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 6, 2020, 4:29 PM EST for 15 counties in Florida; 54 counties in Georgia; 11 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2020, 4:29 PM EST (21:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2020, 6:30 PM EST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Baker County, FL, Calhoun County, FL, Columbia County, FL, Franklin County, FL, Gadsden County, FL, Gulf County, FL, Hamilton 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, Appling County, GA, Atkinson County, GA, Bacon County, GA, Baker County, GA, Ben Hill County, GA, Berrien County, GA, Bleckley County, GA, Brantley County, GA, Brooks County, GA, Bulloch County, GA, Burke County, GA, Candler County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Clinch County, GA, Coffee County, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Cook County, GA, Crisp County, GA, Decatur County, GA, Dodge County, GA, Dougherty County, GA, Echols County, GA, Effingham County, GA, Emanuel County, GA, Evans County, GA, Grady County, GA, Irwin County, GA, Jeff Davis County, GA, Jefferson County, GA, Jenkins County, GA, Johnson County, GA, Lanier County, GA, Laurens County, GA, Long County, GA, Lowndes County, GA, Mitchell County, GA, Montgomery County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Pulaski County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Screven County, GA, Tattnall County, GA, Telfair County, GA, Thomas County, GA, Tift County, GA, Toombs County, GA, Treutlen County, GA, Turner County, GA, Ware County, GA, Washington County, GA, Wayne County, GA, Wheeler County, GA, Wilcox County, GA, Worth County, GA, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Hampton County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Moody AFB radar (KVAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:30 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 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 605 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 438 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 3:02 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 88 min |
| Feb 6, 4:27 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson and 4 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:00 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Holmes, Jackson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gadsden, Hamilton, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison and 2 more | 90 min |
| Feb 6, 12:17 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Dixie, Franklin and 15 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:32 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf and 11 more | 58 min |
| Feb 6, 5:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 5, 7:33 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa, Dade | 117 min |
| Feb 6, 7:40 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas and 11 more | 95 min |
| Feb 6, 9:50 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clarke, Columbia, Elbert, Greene, Hart, Lincoln and 6 more | 55 min |
| Feb 6, 10:12 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Clarke, Columbia, Elbert and 21 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:08 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Chester, Chesterfield, Fairfield, Greenwood, Lancaster and 3 more | 97 min |
| Feb 6, 4:00 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion, Williamsburg | 60 min |
| Feb 6, 4:23 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Darlington, Dillon, Florence, Georgetown, Horry, Marion and 2 more | 9 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2020Every 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.