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Mesoscale Discussion 1266
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 13, 2016, 5:08 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 13, 2016, 5:08 PM CDT (22:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 118 counties
Alexander County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, DeWitt County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Ford County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Iroquois County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Livingston County, IL, Logan County, IL, Macon County, IL, Marion County, IL, Massac County, IL, McLean County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Randolph County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saline County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Union County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Benton County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Knox County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Newton County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warren County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY, Bollinger County, MO, Butler County, MO, Cape Girardeau County, MO, Carter County, MO, Crawford County, MO, Dent County, MO, Howell County, MO, Iron County, MO, Madison County, MO, Mississippi County, MO, New Madrid County, MO, Perry County, MO, Phelps County, MO, Pulaski County, MO, Reynolds County, MO, Ripley County, MO, Saint Francois County, MO, Sainte Genevieve County, MO, Scott County, MO, Shannon County, MO, Stoddard County, MO, Texas County, MO, Washington County, MO, Wayne County, MO
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:08 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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
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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, 2:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Edgar, Vermilion | 87 min |
| 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, 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 |
| Jul 13, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Andrew, Bates, Buchanan, Cass, Clay, Clinton and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 13, 10:33 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Boone, Caldwell, Carroll, Chariton, Cooper and 23 more | 117 min |
| Jul 13, 6:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Barton, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas and 12 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Missouri, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.