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Mesoscale Discussion 1314
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 18, 2016, 1:51 AM EDT for 13 counties in Indiana; 16 counties in Michigan; 12 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2016, 1:51 AM EDT (05:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2016, 3:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 41 counties
Allen County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Noble County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ingham County, MI, Jackson County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Livingston County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Oakland County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Henry County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:51 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
Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 546 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1237 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 353 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.8
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 17, 9:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Newton, Warren | 84 min |
| Jul 17, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Cass, Fulton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte and 7 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 17, 10:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Lake, LaPorte, Newton, Porter and 3 more | 89 min |
| Jul 18, 12:25 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Jasper and 9 more | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 8:59 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Knox | 91 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.