Alert archive / Tennessee / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 164
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 1, 2016, 2:00 PM EST for McCreary County, Whitley County, Kentucky; 31 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 1, 2016, 2:00 PM EST (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 1, 2016, 3:30 PM EST
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 33 counties
McCreary County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Coffee County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Franklin County, TN, Grundy County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Marion County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, White County, TN
The radar
The Knoxville radar (KMRX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Nashville Metro, TN (KBNA), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 169 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 11:21 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Butler, Casey and 18 more | 84 min |
| Mar 1, 12:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Carter and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan and 10 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 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.