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Mesoscale Discussion 1264
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2016, 2:03 PM CDT for 4 counties in Illinois; 41 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 2:03 PM CDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 3:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 45 counties
Clark County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Johnson 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, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Whitley County, IN
The radar
The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:05 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
Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 145 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
- 1355 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1044 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 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 13, 11:14 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Pike | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:10 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Christian, Clinton, DeWitt and 29 more | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 2:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Bureau, Cass, Champaign, Christian, Clark and 76 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Champaign, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 43 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 35 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 75 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.