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Mesoscale Discussion 1583
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 19, 2014, 6:24 PM EDT for 28 counties in Indiana; 8 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 96 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 19, 2014, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2014, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 96 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 36 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Shelby County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 163 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
- 874 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 763 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 31 more | 57 min |
| Aug 19, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson, Greene, Knox and 13 more | 115 min |
| Aug 19, 4:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Whitley | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.