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Mesoscale Discussion 1605
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 23, 2014, 6:14 PM EDT for 19 counties in Indiana; 41 counties in Kentucky; 33 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 23, 2014, 6:14 PM EDT (22:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2014, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 93 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Marion County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Russell County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Bedford County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Giles County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Lincoln County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Moore County, TN, Overton County, TN, Perry County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:17 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, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -164 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1079 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 12:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Clinton, Fountain and 16 more | 117 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.