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Mesoscale Discussion 1571
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 20, 2016, 5:31 PM EDT for 22 counties in Indiana; Lenawee County, Michigan; 14 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 20, 2016, 5:31 PM EDT (21:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 20, 2016, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 37 counties
Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Brown County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Lenawee County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Henry County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH
The radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:33 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
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 158 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
- 293 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 703 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2:13 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Marshall and 3 more | 62 min |
| Aug 20, 11:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegan, Barry, Benzie, Berrien, Calhoun, Cass and 20 more | 116 min |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alpena, Arenac, Bay, Cheboygan, Crawford, Montmorency and 5 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 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.