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Mesoscale Discussion 117
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 4, 2015, 5:53 PM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2015, 5:53 PM EST (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2015, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 76 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Washington County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Mason County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 341 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
- 580 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 191 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 359 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 4, 2:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2015Every 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.