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Mesoscale Discussion 279

March 27, 20165 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 27, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 27, 2016, 5:15 PM CDT (22:15 UTC)
Expired: Mar 27, 2016, 7:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 130 counties

Lawrence County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Boone County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Lenawee County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Allen County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Huron County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:15 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 57Mar 27, 5:35 PM CDT

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 97 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 103 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 27, 2:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland and 20 more	2 hr
Mar 27, 3:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Crawford, Edwards, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Johnson and 10 more	6 hr
Mar 27, 5:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Allen, Blackford, DeKalb, Grant, Huntington and 3 more	5 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016 Every 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.