Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 183
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 6, 2008, 11:54 AM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2008, 11:54 AM EST (16:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 1:30 PM EST
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 110 counties
Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Scott County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Roane County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 669 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 7:15 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 21 more | 90 min |
| Feb 5, 8:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Daviess and 38 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Decatur, Floyd, Franklin and 11 more | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 7:07 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lake, Porter | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 5 more | 83 min |
| Feb 6, 12:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd and 44 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 37 more | 87 min |
| Feb 6, 4:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Letcher | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 8:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike | 116 min |
| Feb 6, 6:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Grant, Greenbrier, Harrison, Lewis and 14 more | 66 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.