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Mesoscale Discussion 2403

September 24, 200339 counties in Illinois; 34 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Missouri

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 24, 2003, 3:26 PM CDT for 39 counties in Illinois; 34 counties in Indiana; 6 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 24, 2003, 3:26 PM CDT (20:26 UTC)
Expired
Sep 24, 2003, 5:00 PM CDT
In force
94 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 79 counties

Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard 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, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike 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, City of Saint Louis, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Perry County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 127 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-09-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1065 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2003-09-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 288 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1065 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-154 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
288 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
9.8

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 23, 11:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBureau, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois and 11 more2 hr
Sep 24, 12:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clinton, Coles and 40 more2 hr
Sep 24, 1:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton and 17 more7 hr
Sep 24, 2:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCElkhart, LaGrange, LaPorte, Saint Joseph, Steuben62 min
Sep 24, 5:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Cass, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington and 16 more83 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 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.