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Mesoscale Discussion 1452
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 17, 2015, 6:54 PM EDT for 74 counties in Indiana; 14 counties in Kentucky; 26 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 17, 2015, 6:54 PM EDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 17, 2015, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 114 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Lake County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 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, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 162 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, 3:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clark and 43 more | 63 min |
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.