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Mesoscale Discussion 332
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 3, 2008, 2:04 PM CST for 19 counties in Illinois; 4 counties in Indiana; 21 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 3, 2008, 2:04 PM CST (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 3, 2008, 7:00 PM CST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Jersey County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Warren County, IN, Christian County, MO, City of Saint Louis, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dallas County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Franklin County, MO, Gasconade County, MO, Greene County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Laclede County, MO, Maries County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Saint Charles County, MO, Saint Louis County, MO, Texas County, MO, Warren County, MO, Washington County, MO, Webster County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 331 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 381 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 6:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Andrew, Atchison, Gentry, Holt, Nodaway, Worth | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.