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Mesoscale Discussion 113

February 8, 202418 counties in Illinois; Clinton County, Jackson County, Scott County, Iowa; Green County, Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 8, 2024, 2:53 PM CST for 18 counties in Illinois; Clinton County, Jackson County, Scott County, Iowa; Green County, Iowa County, Lafayette County, Wisconsin. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 8, 2024, 2:53 PM CST (20:53 UTC)
Expired
Feb 8, 2024, 5:30 PM CST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning
Severe potential...watch unlikely
Chance of a watch
20%
All 24 counties

Clinton County, IA, Jackson County, IA, Scott County, IA, Bureau County, IL, Carroll County, IL, Henry County, IL, Jo Daviess County, IL, Knox County, IL, LaSalle County, IL, Lee County, IL, Marshall County, IL, Mercer County, IL, Ogle County, IL, Peoria County, IL, Putnam County, IL, Rock Island County, IL, Stark County, IL, Stephenson County, IL, Whiteside County, IL, Winnebago County, IL, Woodford County, IL, Green County, WI, Iowa County, WI, Lafayette County, WI

The radar

The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 50 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2024-02-08Temperature 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, Davenport, at 12:00Z on 2024-02-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 216 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1649 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
216 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
610 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
Feb 8, 4:44 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPCLaSalle, Marshall, Woodford61 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2024Mesoscale Discussions in Iowa, 2024Mesoscale Discussions in Wisconsin, 2024Every mesoscale discussion in 2024

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.