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Mesoscale Discussion 83
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 15, 2026, 3:04 AM CST for 4 counties in Alabama; Escambia County, Okaloosa County, Santa Rosa County, Florida; George County, Greene County, Jackson County, Mississippi. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 15, 2026, 3:04 AM CST (09:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2026, 5:00 AM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Tornado watch 7
Counties Baldwin County, AL, Covington County, AL, Escambia County, AL, Mobile County, AL, Escambia County, FL, Okaloosa County, FL, Santa Rosa County, FL, George County, MS, Greene County, MS, Jackson County, MS
The radar
The Mobile radar (KMOB), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 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
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 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, 1:15 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Mobile, Washington | 2 hr |
| 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 15, 10:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty and 3 more | 93 min |
| Feb 15, 11:09 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more | 96 min |
| Feb 15, 11:59 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Clay, Columbia, Duval and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Citrus, Clay, Columbia and 11 more | 94 min |
| Feb 14, 6:02 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 6 more | 118 min |
| Feb 14, 6:54 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Franklin, Hinds and 6 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Florida, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Mississippi, 2026Every 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.