Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2015
Mesoscale Discussion 1600
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2015, 6:43 PM EDT for Dearborn County, Ohio County, Switzerland County, Indiana; 15 counties in Kentucky; 9 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 3, 2015, 6:43 PM EDT (22:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2015, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 27 counties
Dearborn County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:46 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 1837 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 207 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 377 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Benton, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 12:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Benton, Carroll, Cass, Fulton and 14 more | 86 min |
| Aug 3, 3:06 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blackford, Dearborn, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Franklin and 10 more | 117 min |
| Aug 3, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ripley, Union, Wayne | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.