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Mesoscale Discussion 383
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2017, 6:40 PM EDT for 13 counties in Indiana; 34 counties in Kentucky; 22 counties in Tennessee. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2017, 6:40 PM EDT (22:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2017, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties
Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Orange County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Christian County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Decatur County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Lewis County, TN, Macon County, TN, Maury County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Perry County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -225 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1288 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 30, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey | 7 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:03 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Carroll and 42 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay, Clinton, Daviess and 36 more | 33 min |
| Mar 30, 7:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Daviess and 31 more | 55 min |
| Mar 30, 12:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 64 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2017Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 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.