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Mesoscale Discussion 65
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 6, 2025, 12:08 AM CST for 42 counties in Kentucky; 42 counties in Tennessee; Lee County, Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2025, 12:08 AM CST (06:08 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2025, 2:15 AM CST
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch possible
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 85 counties
Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Butler County, KY, Calloway County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Graves County, KY, Green County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Hart County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Lyon County, KY, Marshall County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Russell County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trigg County, KY, Warren County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Anderson County, TN, Benton County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Cannon County, TN, Carroll County, TN, Cheatham County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, Davidson County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Dickson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Henry County, TN, Hickman County, TN, Houston County, TN, Humphreys County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Rutherford County, TN, Scott County, TN, Smith County, TN, Stewart County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Union County, TN, Weakley County, TN, White County, TN, Williamson County, TN, Wilson County, TN, Lee County, VA
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:10 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 230 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 326 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 4:19 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 61 more | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 5:13 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 51 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 7:12 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Barren, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 24 more | 93 min |
| Feb 6, 8:52 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 3 more | 83 min |
| Feb 6, 1:21 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCreary and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:10 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan and 13 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2025Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2025Every mesoscale discussion in 2025
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.