Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1390
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2015, 11:01 AM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2015, 11:01 AM CDT (16:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2015, 12:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 95%
All 147 counties
Edwards County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Knox County, IN, Martin County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Webster County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Preble County, OH, Warren County, OH, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Scott County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 20 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 926 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -62 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 13, 3:49 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Iroquois and 7 more | 116 min |
| Jul 13, 4:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 18 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 7:19 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle and 2 more | 86 min |
| Jul 13, 9:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Champaign, Clark, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, DeWitt and 16 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Champaign, DeKalb, DeWitt and 29 more | 84 min |
| Jul 13, 4:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign, Christian and 52 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Christian, Clinton and 14 more | 57 min |
| Jul 13, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Clinton, Fayette and 11 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Brown, Bureau, Carroll, Cass, Champaign and 65 more | 91 min |
| Jul 13, 11:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dearborn, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Orange and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jul 13, 4:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Barren, Bell, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 25 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carter, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen, Hancock and 6 more | 83 min |
| Jul 13, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carter, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Greene, Hamblen and 8 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Clay and 25 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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.