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Mesoscale Discussion 150
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 16, 2006, 4:26 PM EST for 47 counties in Indiana; Berrien County, Cass County, Saint Joseph County, Michigan. It was in force for 94 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 2006, 4:26 PM EST (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 2006, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 94 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Berrien County, MI, Cass County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 548 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 589 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 10:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake, Porter | 2 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Newton | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 4:55 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 59 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Dubois, Fountain, Gibson, Harrison and 12 more | 95 min |
| Feb 16, 6:13 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 16, 6:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 58 more | 61 min |
| Feb 15, 11:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 16, 11:06 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 45 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.