Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2225
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 22, 2003, 4:47 PM EDT for Clark County, Floyd County, Harrison County, Indiana; 46 counties in Kentucky; Brown County, Clermont County, Ohio. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2003, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Clark County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 2888 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 769 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.6
- Supercell composite
- 11.2
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 11:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Ohio and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Christian and 19 more | 95 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.