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Mesoscale Discussion 1889
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 5, 2012, 9:04 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 5, 2012, 9:04 AM CDT (14:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 5, 2012, 10:30 AM CDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 85 counties
Alexander County, IL, Bond County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Marion County, IL, Massac County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, Perry County, MO, Scott County, MO
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:05 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 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 229 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
- 1271 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -188 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1037 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 4, 8:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jo Daviess | 60 min |
| Sep 4, 8:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 5, 1:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Rock Island, Stephenson, Whiteside and 1 more | 91 min |
| Sep 5, 3:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, DeKalb, Grundy, Henderson and 21 more | 92 min |
| Sep 5, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Clark, Clay, Clinton, Coles, Crawford and 24 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 5, 1:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gallatin, Hardin, Johnson, Massac, Pope | 65 min |
| Sep 5, 1:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hardin | 5 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Massac, Pulaski | 2 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alexander, Johnson, Massac, Pope, Pulaski, Union | 8 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 88 min |
| Sep 5, 5:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Casey and 28 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.