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Mesoscale Discussion 28

January 5, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 5, 2015, 6:29 PM CST for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 5, 2015, 6:29 PM CST (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 5, 2015, 11:30 PM CST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 101 counties

Benton County, IA, Black Hawk County, IA, Buchanan County, IA, Cedar County, IA, Clinton County, IA, Delaware County, IA, Des Moines County, IA, Henry County, IA, Iowa County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Johnson County, IA, Jones County, IA, Keokuk County, IA, Linn County, IA, Louisa County, IA, Mahaska County, IA, Muscatine County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, Scott County, IA, Tama County, IA, Washington County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Champaign County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Ford County, IL, Fulton County, IL, Grundy County, IL, Henderson County, IL, Henry County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Kankakee County, IL, Kendall County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Marshall County, IL, McLean County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stark County, IL, Tazewell County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Warren County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Will County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Adams County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette 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, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Newton County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Butler County, OH, Darke County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Preble County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Chicago radar (KLOT), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:31 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

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 80 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 108 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 232 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2015 Every 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.