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Mesoscale Discussion 1322
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2015, 1:09 PM CDT for 10 counties in Illinois; Ballard County, Kentucky; 22 counties in Missouri. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2015, 1:09 PM CDT (18:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2015, 3:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 33 counties
Alexander County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Monroe County, IL, Perry County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Union County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Ballard County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Douglas County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Jefferson County, MO, Madison County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO, Wright County, MO
The radar
The St Louis radar (KLSX), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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
Springfield, MO (KSGF), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 254 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
- 461 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -16 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 533 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Bond, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin and 23 more | 113 min |
| Jul 8, 6:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alexander, Clay, Clinton, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Casey and 20 more | 92 min |
| Jul 8, 1:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Christian, Douglas, Greene, Howell, Ozark, Stone and 3 more | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 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.