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Mesoscale Discussion 101
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 15, 2025, 8:37 PM CST for 32 counties in Alabama; Catoosa County, Dade County, Walker County, Georgia; 44 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2025, 8:37 PM CST (02:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2025, 9:30 PM CST
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 79 counties
Bibb County, AL, Blount County, AL, Choctaw County, AL, Clarke County, AL, Colbert County, AL, Cullman County, AL, DeKalb County, AL, Etowah County, AL, Fayette County, AL, Franklin County, AL, Greene County, AL, Hale County, AL, Jackson County, AL, Jefferson County, AL, Lamar County, AL, Lauderdale County, AL, Lawrence County, AL, Limestone County, AL, Madison County, AL, Marengo County, AL, Marion County, AL, Marshall County, AL, Morgan County, AL, Perry County, AL, Pickens County, AL, Shelby County, AL, St. Clair County, AL, Sumter County, AL, Tuscaloosa County, AL, Walker County, AL, Washington County, AL, Winston County, AL, Catoosa County, GA, Dade County, GA, Walker County, GA, Amite County, MS, Attala County, MS, Chickasaw County, MS, Choctaw County, MS, Clarke County, MS, Clay County, MS, Copiah County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, Franklin County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hinds County, MS, Itawamba County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jefferson Davis County, MS, Jones County, MS, Kemper County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Lauderdale County, MS, Lawrence County, MS, Leake County, MS, Lee County, MS, Lincoln County, MS, Lowndes County, MS, Madison County, MS, Marion County, MS, Monroe County, MS, Neshoba County, MS, Newton County, MS, Noxubee County, MS, Oktibbeha County, MS, Perry County, MS, Pike County, MS, Prentiss County, MS, Rankin County, MS, Scott County, MS, Simpson County, MS, Smith County, MS, Tishomingo County, MS, Walthall County, MS, Wayne County, MS, Webster County, MS, Wilkinson County, MS, Winston County, MS
The radar
The Jackson/Brandon,MS radar (KDGX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:38 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
Jackson, MS (KJAN), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 909 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 9:11 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock and 56 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 15, 11:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Choctaw, Cullman, Fayette, Greene, Hale and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:51 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Butler and 41 more | 114 min |
| Feb 16, 2:42 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:01 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Bullock, Butler, Chambers, Clay, Cleburne and 13 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:02 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll and 73 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Elbert, Glascock, Greene, Hancock and 9 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:32 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien and 52 more | 118 min |
| Feb 16, 6:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 7:48 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Brooks and 25 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2025Every mesoscale discussion in 2025
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.