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Mesoscale Discussion 372
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2022, 11:51 PM CDT for Covington County, Escambia County, Geneva County, Alabama; 4 counties in Florida. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2022, 11:51 PM CDT (04:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2022, 1:45 AM CDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Tornado watch 82
Counties Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Geneva County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:53 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
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 449 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 30, 7:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Colbert, Lauderdale, Limestone, Madison | 94 min |
| Mar 30, 8:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Pickens, Sumter | 57 min |
| Mar 30, 8:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Dallas, Perry | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Washington | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 9:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Escambia, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chilton, Shelby | 85 min |
| Mar 30, 11:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Calhoun, Chambers, Cherokee, Clay and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne, Lee and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Henry, Houston, Russell | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:40 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baker, Bay, Calhoun, Columbia, Franklin, Gadsden and 11 more | 9 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Pasco, Putnam and 1 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
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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.