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Mesoscale Discussion 970
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2025, 3:15 PM EDT for 29 counties in Florida; 12 counties in Georgia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2025, 3:15 PM EDT (19:15 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2025, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 41 counties
Alachua County, FL, Baker County, FL, Bradford County, FL, Brevard County, FL, Clay County, FL, DeSoto County, FL, Duval County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Glades County, FL, Hardee County, FL, Hendry County, FL, Highlands County, FL, Indian River County, FL, Lake County, FL, Marion County, FL, Martin County, FL, Nassau County, FL, Okeechobee County, FL, Orange County, FL, Osceola County, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Polk County, FL, Putnam County, FL, Saint Johns County, FL, Saint Lucie County, FL, Seminole County, FL, Sumter County, FL, Union County, FL, Volusia County, FL, Brantley County, GA, Bryan County, GA, Camden County, GA, Charlton County, GA, Chatham County, GA, Evans County, GA, Glynn County, GA, Liberty County, GA, Long County, GA, McIntosh County, GA, Pierce County, GA, Wayne County, GA
The radar
The Jacksonville radar (KJAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
Cape Canaveral, FL (KXMR), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 132 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
- 2392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 2:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Catoosa | 85 min |
| May 25, 4:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Cobb and 20 more | 8 hr |
| May 25, 5:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartow, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee, Dade, Fannin and 7 more | 83 min |
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.