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Mesoscale Discussion 525
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 1, 2016, 6:48 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 2016, 6:48 PM EDT (22:48 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 133 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Scott County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Larue County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Madison County, KY, Marion County, KY, Marshall County, KY, Mason County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Chester County, TN, Clay County, TN, Crockett County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fayette County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Hardeman County, TN, Hardin County, TN, Haywood County, TN, Henderson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Lawrence County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Madison County, TN, Maury County, TN, McNairy County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wayne County, TN, Weakley County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:48 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, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 259 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 732 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Clark, Crawford, Daviess, Dearborn and 33 more | 2 hr |
| May 1, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 6:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 42 more | 114 min |
| May 1, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Carroll, Clay, Clinton and 33 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 2:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Calloway, Christian, Logan, Muhlenberg, Todd and 1 more | 64 min |
| May 1, 3:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd and 13 more | 61 min |
| May 1, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Estill and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 7:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Floyd, Knott, Martin, Pike | 60 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 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.