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Mesoscale Discussion 2336

September 1, 20034 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 1, 2003, 3:38 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 1, 2003, 3:38 PM CDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Sep 1, 2003, 5:15 PM CDT
In force: 97 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 86 counties

Crawford County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White 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, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry 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, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby 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, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 40 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 672 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 505 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 143 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 4.0

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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
Aug 31, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 13 more	94 min
Aug 31, 9:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Crawford, Cumberland and 8 more	2 hr
Sep 1, 1:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin and 7 more	2 hr
Sep 1, 2:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Edwards, Effingham, Hamilton and 6 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.