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Mesoscale Discussion 26

January 13, 201315 counties in Illinois; 4 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 13, 2013, 12:09 PM CST for 15 counties in Illinois; 4 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2013, 12:09 PM CST (18:09 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2013, 3:45 PM CST
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Union County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Clay County, IN, Parke County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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

Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 301 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 36 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 359 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 389 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 6:17 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bond, Boone, Bureau, Champaign, Christian, Clinton and 42 more	6 hr
Jan 12, 9:13 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Saint Joseph	6 hr
Jan 12, 10:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 27 more	88 min
Jan 13, 4:27 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange and 2 more	4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2013 Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2013 Every mesoscale discussion in 2013

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.