Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1706
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2003, 12:25 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2003, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2003, 2:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 162 counties
Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:24 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 537 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -255 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 7:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, DuPage, Henry and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 10:18 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 21 more | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 11:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, Iroquois, Kankakee, Lake, Vermilion | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Iroquois, Vermilion | 85 min |
| Jul 8, 8:50 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer and 2 more | 115 min |
| Jul 8, 9:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 28 more | 91 min |
| Jul 8, 1:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 25 more | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 1:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign and 48 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 41 more | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Douglas and 14 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 30 more | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 10:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 43 more | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 10:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 19 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 17 more | 30 min |
| Jul 8, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 54 more | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 17 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 67 more | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup, Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd | 115 min |
| Jul 7, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Carroll, Coshocton, Crawford and 36 more | 60 min |
| Jul 8, 1:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 44 more | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 2:20 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign, Clark and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:06 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 21 more | 114 min |
| Jul 7, 7:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 9:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Greenbrier, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson and 6 more | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 6:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Gilmer, Grant, Harrison and 10 more | 61 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2003Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.