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Mesoscale Discussion 1732
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2003, 9:54 AM CDT for 34 counties in Illinois; 37 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 2003, 9:54 AM CDT (14:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 2003, 11:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 71 counties
Bureau County, IL, 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, Ford County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mason County, IL, McLean County, IL, Menard County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Will County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 279 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -182 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 874 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 8, 8:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 36 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 10:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 27 more | 114 min |
| Jul 9, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Champaign, Clark, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 12:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Effingham and 17 more | 56 min |
| Jul 9, 1:35 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Coles, Douglas, Edgar, Ford, Grundy and 4 more | 55 min |
| Jul 9, 3:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Edgar, Kankakee | 33 min |
| Jul 9, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, Mercer and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 18 more | 86 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland and 24 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Knox and 12 more | 97 min |
| Jul 8, 8:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 50 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 9, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay and 26 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Jefferson, Jennings and 7 more | 88 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.