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Mesoscale Discussion 2030

August 19, 20054 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2005, 12:49 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 86 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 19, 2005, 12:49 PM CDT (17:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 19, 2005, 2:15 PM CDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 103 counties

Crawford County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Wabash 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, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:50 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 321 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: 138 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -277 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1111 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 137 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 18, 8:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Greene, Hancock and 9 more	2 hr
Aug 18, 9:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cook, Lake	92 min
Aug 18, 9:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 18 more	67 min
Aug 18, 10:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Crawford and 24 more	8 hr
Aug 18, 11:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Brown, Hancock, McDonough, Pike	60 min
Aug 19, 4:24 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Crawford	66 min
Aug 19, 4:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 23 more	2 hr
Aug 19, 12:52 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware and 25 more	83 min
Aug 19, 7:16 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Geauga, Harrison, Jefferson and 5 more	59 min
Aug 19, 1:32 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Cuyahoga and 13 more	118 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.