Alert archive / Illinois / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1690
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 8, 2007, 6:59 PM CDT for 35 counties in Illinois. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2007, 6:59 PM CDT (23:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2007, 8:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
Adams County, IL, Brown County, IL, Calhoun County, IL, Cass County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Greene County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Mason County, IL, McDonough County, IL, Menard County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Morgan County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pike County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Schuyler County, IL, Scott County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Tazewell County, IL
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:02 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
Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 1214 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bureau, Cass, DeWitt, Ford, Fulton, Grundy and 27 more | 92 min |
| Aug 8, 12:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edgar, Iroquois, Vermilion | 91 min |
| Aug 8, 3:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 23 more | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 28 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
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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.