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Mesoscale Discussion 152

February 16, 20064 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 16, 2006, 5:59 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 61 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 16, 2006, 5:59 PM CST (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Feb 16, 2006, 7:00 PM CST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 101 counties

Crawford 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, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock 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, 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, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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 nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1194 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 400 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 421 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
Feb 16, 5:16 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carroll, Jo Daviess, Mercer, Ogle, Rock Island, Stephenson and 2 more	5 hr
Feb 16, 9:41 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Kane and 8 more	2 hr
Feb 16, 12:45 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, DeWitt, Ford and 20 more	90 min
Feb 16, 1:16 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bond, Calhoun, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay and 47 more	7 hr
Feb 16, 4:55 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Bond, Champaign, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 41 more	95 min
Feb 16, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope and 3 more	6 hr
Feb 16, 3:26 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 41 more	94 min
Feb 16, 3:55 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 59 more	6 hr
Feb 15, 10:40 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 35 more	5 hr
Feb 16, 10:06 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alcona, Alpena, Antrim, Arenac, Bay, Benzie and 45 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2006 Every 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.