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Mesoscale Discussion 1447
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 17, 2015, 3:27 PM EDT for 49 counties in Indiana; 16 counties in Kentucky; 27 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2015, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2015, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 92 counties
Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Madison County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:28 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 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -204 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1042 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 8:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter | 92 min |
| Jul 16, 10:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fountain, Vermillion, Warren | 110 min |
| Jul 17, 12:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton | 26 min |
| Jul 17, 6:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone and 68 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.