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Mesoscale Discussion 934

June 8, 201528 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 8, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT for 28 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 2015, 12:02 AM EDT (04:02 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 2015, 1:30 AM EDT
In force: 88 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 28 counties

Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 15 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 328 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jun 7, 9:03 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 28 more	57 min
Jun 7, 10:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Clay, Clinton, Delaware, Fountain, Hamilton and 17 more	53 min
Jun 8, 4:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Elkhart, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Marshall, Newton and 4 more	88 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.