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Mesoscale Discussion 802

May 27, 20154 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 27, 2015, 11:09 AM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 96 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 27, 2015, 11:09 AM CDT (16:09 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2015, 12:45 PM CDT
In force: 96 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 83 counties

Iroquois County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Benton County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jasper County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, LaPorte County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Porter County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Clinton County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Genesee County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lapeer County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saginaw County, MI, Saint Clair County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Sanilac County, MI, Shiawassee County, MI, Tuscola County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Allen County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 228May 27, 12:10 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 146 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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 902 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 127 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 3:53 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Jackson, Monroe, Perry, Randolph, Saint Clair	2 hr
May 27, 7:57 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar and 18 more	2 hr
May 27, 12:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 7 more	6 hr
May 27, 12:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bartholomew, Clark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Floyd and 16 more	83 min
May 27, 2:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 3 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2015 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.