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Mesoscale Discussion 34

January 19, 201913 counties in Illinois; 37 counties in Indiana; 16 counties in Kentucky

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 19, 2019, 6:21 PM CST for 13 counties in Illinois; 37 counties in Indiana; 16 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 2019, 6:21 PM CST (00:21 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 2019, 9:15 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 66 counties

Edwards County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Massac County, IL, Pope County, IL, Pulaski County, IL, Saline County, IL, Wabash County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson 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, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Ballard County, KY, Caldwell County, KY, Carlisle County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Graves County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Hopkins County, KY, Livingston County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCracken County, KY, McLean County, KY, Union County, KY, Webster County, KY

The radar

The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:23 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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 265 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20Temperature 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, Nashville Metro, TN at 00:00Z on 2019-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
658 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
95 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-22 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 11:13 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCook4 hr
Jan 19, 9:35 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCClark, Dearborn, Decatur, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin and 12 more3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 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.