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Mesoscale Discussion 32
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 8, 2008, 12:22 PM CST for 16 counties in Illinois; 22 counties in Indiana; 32 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 83 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2008, 12:22 PM CST (18:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2008, 1:45 PM CST
- In force
- 83 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 70 counties
Alexander County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence 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, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1036 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 426 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 368 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 7, 6:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Brown, Pike, Schuyler | 94 min |
| Jan 7, 6:57 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun, Greene, Jersey, Madison, Monroe, Pike and 2 more | 93 min |
| Jan 7, 7:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 4 more | 117 min |
| Jan 7, 7:48 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette, Greene, Jackson and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 7, 10:04 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calhoun | 86 min |
| Jan 7, 10:12 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Champaign, Christian, Clark, Coles, Cumberland, DeWitt and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Johnson, Massac and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:11 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope | 2 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:26 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Massac, Pope | 8 hr |
| Jan 7, 6:01 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 7, 8:22 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 8, 4:03 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Harrison, Perry, Spencer, Warrick | 117 min |
| Jan 8, 8:34 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 8, 5:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Clinton, Cumberland, Metcalfe, Monroe | 54 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.