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Mesoscale Discussion 1710

September 7, 2021Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois; 7 counties in Indiana

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 7, 2021, 5:25 PM CDT for Champaign County, Vermilion County, Illinois; 7 counties in Indiana. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 7, 2021, 5:25 PM CDT (22:25 UTC)
Expired
Sep 7, 2021, 7:00 PM CDT
In force
95 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning
Severe thunderstorm watch 489...490

Counties Champaign County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Benton County, IN, Carroll County, IN, Cass County, IN, Miami County, IN, Tippecanoe County, IN, Warren County, IN, White County, IN

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 129 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 104 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2021-09-07Temperature 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, Lincoln, IL at 12:00Z on 2021-09-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 93 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
1964 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

374 
ACUS11 KWNS 072226
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 072225 
INZ000-ILZ000-080000-

Mesoscale Discussion 1710
NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0525 PM CDT Tue Sep 07 2021

Areas affected...East-Central IL...Northwest IN

Concerning...Severe Thunderstorm Watch 489...490...

Valid 072225Z - 080000Z

The severe weather threat for Severe Thunderstorm Watch 489, 490
continues.

SUMMARY...Isolated damaging wind gusts remain possible with squall
line as it propagates east-southeast.

DISCUSSION...Secondary mid-level speed max is digging southeast
across IA toward the base of the Great Lakes upper trough, and
subsequent height falls will continue to spread across portions of
the OH Valley in response to this feature. West-southwest/northeast
oriented squall line that developed across IL continues to propagate
east-southeast in response to this digging speed max, though
stronger winds have subsided with the squall line as it approaches
weaker buoyancy across IN. This line of storms is expected to
gradually advance beyond the southeast portion of ww489 and
southwestern corner of ww490 over the next 1-2 hours. However,
unless this convection begins to produce more extensive wind gusts
it appears the majority of downburst activity will remain mostly
sub-severe. New severe thunderstorm watch is not currently
anticipated.

..Darrow.. 09/07/2021

...Please see www.spc.noaa.gov for graphic product...

ATTN...WFO...IWX...IND...LOT...ILX...

LAT...LON   40328865 41038631 40718586 40258685 40128832 40328865

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 7, 12:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBoone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 9 more65 min
Sep 7, 1:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bureau, Champaign, Cook, DeKalb, DeWitt and 34 more8 hr
Sep 7, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall and 11 more91 min
Sep 7, 1:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 6 more117 min
Sep 7, 2:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCass, Elkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte and 7 more7 hr
Sep 7, 4:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCElkhart, Fulton, Kosciusko, LaGrange, LaPorte, Marshall and 5 more83 min

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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.