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Mesoscale Discussion 1043

June 17, 2015Gallatin County, Hardin County, Illinois; 9 counties in Indiana; 11 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 17, 2015, 12:38 AM CDT for Gallatin County, Hardin County, Illinois; 9 counties in Indiana; 11 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 2015, 12:38 AM CDT (05:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 2015, 2:45 AM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

All 22 counties

Gallatin County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Breckinridge County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:37 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 00:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 362 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: 51 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1241 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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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
Jun 17, 2:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson and 10 more	115 min
Jun 17, 11:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Pike	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2015 Every mesoscale discussion in 2015

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.