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Mesoscale Discussion 1626

July 5, 200320 counties in Illinois; 27 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2003, 12:55 PM CDT for 20 counties in Illinois; 27 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2003, 12:55 PM CDT (17:55 UTC)
Expired: Jul 5, 2003, 3:30 PM CDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 47 counties

Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 648Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDT

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 4, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall and 1 more	62 min
Jul 4, 10:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas, Ford and 20 more	2 hr
Jul 4, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jo Daviess, Rock Island	90 min
Jul 4, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer and 6 more	7 hr
Jul 5, 2:31 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 27 more	89 min
Jul 5, 3:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Boone, Bureau, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 11 more	4 hr
Jul 5, 5:43 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cook, Kankakee, Lake, Will	92 min
Jul 5, 4:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Ford, Iroquois, Vermilion	56 min
Jul 5, 5:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cass, DeWitt, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry and 16 more	57 min
Jul 5, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 36 more	6 hr
Jul 5, 6:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Elkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Porter, Saint Joseph, Steuben	3 hr
Jul 5, 7:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 10 more	93 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 35 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2003 Every mesoscale discussion in 2003

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.