Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2023
Mesoscale Discussion 704
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 7, 2023, 9:28 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 92 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 7, 2023, 9:28 AM EDT (13:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch unlikely
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 98 counties
Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Clay County, TN, Pickett County, TN
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:27 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, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 682 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Greene, Monroe, Morgan, Owen, Parke and 3 more | 114 min |
| May 7, 5:05 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Vigo | 85 min |
| May 7, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Gibson, Posey, Vanderburgh | 10 hr |
| May 7, 4:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Posey | 65 min |
| May 7, 7:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Newton | 65 min |
| May 7, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Jasper, Newton | 5 hr |
| May 7, 2:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Graves and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 2:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 84 min |
| May 7, 3:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Cheatham, Davidson, Dickson, Henry and 8 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 5:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Cocke, Cumberland, Grundy and 17 more | 119 min |
Nearby
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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.