Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2019
Mesoscale Discussion 249
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 30, 2019, 1:54 PM CDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 30, 2019, 1:54 PM CDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 2019, 4:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 62 counties
Hardin County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Clark County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Christian County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Fulton County, KY, Graves County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hickman County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Larue County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Union County, KY, Warren County, KY, Webster County, KY, Mississippi County, MO, Benton County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Dyer County, TN, Gibson County, TN, Henry County, TN, Houston County, TN, Lake County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Obion County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Weakley County, TN
The radar
The Ft Campbell radar (KHPX), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 29, 11:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barry, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barry, Lawrence, McDonald, Newton, Stone | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Chester, Crockett, Davidson and 22 more | 83 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.