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Mesoscale Discussion 968

May 24, 2006Edwards County, Wabash County, Illinois; 18 counties in Indiana; 22 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2006, 8:59 PM CDT for Edwards County, Wabash County, Illinois; 18 counties in Indiana; 22 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 24, 2006, 8:59 PM CDT (01:59 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2006, 10:30 PM CDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 42 counties

Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Marion County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY

The radar

The Louisville radar (KLVX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 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 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 268 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: 2551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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
May 25, 12:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 10 more	2 hr
May 25, 1:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar, Edwards and 11 more	7 hr
May 25, 2:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Edwards, Hamilton, Jasper and 5 more	85 min
May 25, 3:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pulaski, Union	54 min
May 25, 4:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 9 more	91 min
May 25, 5:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more	8 hr
May 25, 2:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Ohio, Switzerland	8 hr
May 25, 2:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bath, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carter, Elliott and 8 more	54 min

Nearby

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