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Mesoscale Discussion 1650
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT for 21 counties in Illinois; 32 counties in Indiana; 62 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2004, 5:00 PM CDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2004, 7:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 115 counties
Bond County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clay County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Richland County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Estill 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, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:01 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 238 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
- 1440 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1045 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 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 13, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Carroll, Ford, Grundy, Henry, Iroquois and 14 more | 118 min |
| Jul 13, 10:55 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Ford, Fulton and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:39 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Ford, Fulton and 27 more | 66 min |
| Jul 13, 2:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Coles and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jefferson and 7 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2004Every 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.