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Mesoscale Discussion 82

February 15, 2026Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; 7 parishes in Louisiana; 18 counties in Mississippi

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 15, 2026, 1:15 AM CST for Mobile County, Washington County, Alabama; 7 parishes in Louisiana; 18 counties in Mississippi. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 15, 2026, 1:15 AM CST (07:15 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2026, 3:15 AM CST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Tornado watch 7

All 27 counties

Mobile County, AL, Washington County, AL, Jefferson Parish, LA, Lafourche Parish, LA, Orleans Parish, LA, Saint Bernard Parish, LA, Saint Charles Parish, LA, Saint Tammany Parish, LA, Terrebonne Parish, LA, Clarke County, MS, Covington County, MS, Forrest County, MS, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Hancock County, MS, Harrison County, MS, Jackson County, MS, Jasper County, MS, Jones County, MS, Lamar County, MS, Newton County, MS, Pearl River County, MS, Perry County, MS, Scott County, MS, Smith County, MS, Stone County, MS, Wayne County, MS

The radar

The Hammond radar (KHDC), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:18 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

Slidell Radar S, LA (KSIL), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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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 14, 10:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Mobile, Washington	2 hr
Feb 14, 11:17 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Mobile, Washington	6 hr
Feb 15, 3:04 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Mobile	116 min
Feb 15, 6:45 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	2 hr
Feb 15, 7:35 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston	8 hr
Feb 14, 6:02 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 40 more	118 min
Feb 14, 6:54 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Beauregard and 37 more	6 hr
Feb 14, 9:02 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Acadia, Allen, Avoyelles, Cameron, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis and 4 more	58 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Louisiana, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2026 Every mesoscale discussion in 2026

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.