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Mesoscale Discussion 1880

August 7, 20114 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 7, 2011, 11:14 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 7, 2011, 11:14 AM CDT (16:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2011, 1:15 PM CDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 101 counties

Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Cass County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH

The watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 188 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 842 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
842 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-177 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1102 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
204 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 6, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer and 3 more5 hr
Aug 6, 11:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, McDonough and 4 more114 min
Aug 7, 5:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBond, Calhoun, Clinton, Franklin, Jackson, Jefferson and 10 more115 min
Aug 7, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlexander, Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin and 23 more6 hr
Aug 7, 12:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 31 more6 hr
Aug 7, 3:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFayette, Franklin, Hancock, Henry, Rush, Union and 1 more119 min
Aug 7, 4:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Coshocton, Guernsey and 16 more4 hr
Aug 7, 6:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGallia, Jackson, Meigs, Washington84 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.