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Mesoscale Discussion 830

May 10, 20068 counties in Illinois; 29 counties in Indiana; 10 counties in Michigan

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2006, 1:38 PM CDT for 8 counties in Illinois; 29 counties in Indiana; 10 counties in Michigan. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2006, 1:38 PM CDT (18:38 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2006, 3:45 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 47 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 212 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2006-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 33 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2006-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
33 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
897 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
33 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 10, 3:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope, Saline2 hr
May 10, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 34 more4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.