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Mesoscale Discussion 1618

September 4, 20175 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 4, 2017, 6:50 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 115 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 4, 2017, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Sep 4, 2017, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
115 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 84 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clinton County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Fulton County, IN, Grant County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Huntington County, IN, Jay County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Miami County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Noble County, IN, Parke County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Warren County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Lenawee County, MI, Macomb County, MI, Monroe County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Wayne County, MI, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Henry County, OH, Huron County, OH, Lake County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Portage County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Crawford County, PA, Erie County, PA, McKean County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 164 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 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 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 186 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2017-09-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Detroit, MI at 12:00Z on 2017-09-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1687 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 4, 3:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll and 35 more118 min
Sep 4, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 38 more6 hr
Sep 4, 7:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCVermillion115 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2017Every mesoscale discussion in 2017

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.