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Mesoscale Discussion 1206
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 1:01 PM EDT for 16 counties in Kentucky; 37 counties in Tennessee; 7 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 60 counties
Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:02 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 2067 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -80 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 136 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 149 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 10:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 101 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton, Hickman | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bell, Breathitt, Casey, Clark, Clay and 32 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 5:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 6:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson and 3 more | 84 min |
| Jul 8, 1:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Campbell, Carroll and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brunswick, Greensville, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, City of Emporia | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.