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Mesoscale Discussion 1188

June 11, 20045 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 11, 2004, 10:52 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 113 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2004, 10:52 AM EST (15:52 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2004, 12:45 PM EST
In force: 113 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 139 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Marion County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Pike County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton 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, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Alleghany County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, Craig County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Highland County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 434Jun 11, 11:50 AM EST

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 970 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 186 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 258 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.0
Supercell composite: 5.7

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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
Jun 10, 7:58 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Benton, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Cass and 22 more	92 min
Jun 10, 9:50 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 35 more	5 hr
Jun 11, 12:07 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 31 more	83 min
Jun 11, 1:58 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 31 more	92 min
Jun 11, 11:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 35 more	5 hr
Jun 11, 3:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott and 10 more	6 hr
Jun 11, 6:02 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Magoffin, Perry and 1 more	118 min
Jun 11, 3:16 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta and 72 more	89 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.