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Mesoscale Discussion 323
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2013, 11:48 AM CDT for Spencer County, Vanderburgh County, Warrick County, Indiana; 26 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 117 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2013, 11:48 AM CDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2013, 1:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 117 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 50 counties
Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Christian County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McLean County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Benton County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 465 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 24, 11:52 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 5 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 24, 6:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass, Clinton and 20 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2013Every 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.