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Mesoscale Discussion 1210
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 8, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2016, 2:49 PM CDT (19:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2016, 3:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 100 counties
Adair County, KY, Bell County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bedford County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, Marion County, TN, Marshall County, TN, Maury 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, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:53 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 194 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, 9:08 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll, Franklin and 12 more | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 10:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 101 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 12:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 10 more | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton, Hickman | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 5:06 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson and 3 more | 84 min |
| Jul 8, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bedford, Bledsoe, Blount, Campbell, Cannon and 50 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Johnson | 88 min |
| Jul 8, 2:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Appomattox, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Campbell, Carroll and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:15 PM CDT | 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.