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Mesoscale Discussion 449

March 30, 20055 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2005, 10:40 PM CST for 5 states. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 30, 2005, 10:40 PM CST (04:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2005, 12:15 AM CST
In force: 95 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 147 counties

Crawford County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Martin County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:40 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 00:00Z, 4.7 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 926 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1436 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 311 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 338 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 7.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Mar 30, 7:11 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 46 more	64 min
Mar 30, 7:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alexander, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles and 46 more	8 hr
Mar 31, 2:08 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clinton, Cumberland, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Monroe and 4 more	97 min
Mar 30, 6:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegan, Barry, Calhoun, Clare, Ionia, Isabella and 9 more	58 min
Mar 30, 7:05 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegan, Barry, Clare, Isabella, Kalamazoo, Kent and 10 more	6 hr
Mar 30, 10:12 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegan, Barry, Clare, Ionia, Isabella, Kalamazoo and 8 more	63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 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.