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Mesoscale Discussion 1824
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 7, 2014, 1:44 PM CDT for 13 counties in Illinois; 19 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 7, 2014, 1:44 PM CDT (18:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 7, 2014, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 32 counties
Champaign County, IL, Clark County, IL, Coles County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Ford County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Macon County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Starke County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN
The radar
The Lincoln radar (KILX), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:46 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -96 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 7, 12:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson and 6 more | 115 min |
| Oct 7, 1:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Franklin, Harrison and 7 more | 9 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Delaware, Grant and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 6 more | 96 min |
| Oct 7, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Floyd, Harrison | 61 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.