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Mesoscale Discussion 694

May 19, 201951 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Michigan; Williams County, Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 19, 2019, 7:00 PM EDT for 51 counties in Indiana; 12 counties in Michigan; Williams County, Ohio. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 19, 2019, 7:00 PM EDT (23:00 UTC)
Expired
May 19, 2019, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties

Adams County, IN, Allen County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Decatur County, IN, DeKalb County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Elkhart County, IN, Fayette 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, Johnson County, IN, Kosciusko County, IN, LaGrange County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Marshall County, IN, Miami County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Noble County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pulaski County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Rush County, IN, Saint Joseph County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Starke County, IN, Steuben County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Wabash County, IN, Wells County, IN, White County, IN, Whitley County, IN, Allegan County, MI, Barry County, MI, Branch County, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Cass County, MI, Eaton County, MI, Hillsdale County, MI, Ionia County, MI, Kalamazoo County, MI, Kent County, MI, Saint Joseph County, MI, Van Buren County, MI, Williams County, OH

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:05 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 244 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2019-05-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2019-05-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 140 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1385 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
140 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
98 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
May 19, 3:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Dubois, Fountain and 18 more114 min
May 19, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Allen, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown and 57 more5 hr
May 19, 4:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more63 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.