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Mesoscale Discussion 285

March 22, 20264 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 22, 2026, 3:50 PM CDT for 4 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 22, 2026, 3:50 PM CDT (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Mar 22, 2026, 6:15 PM CDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe potential...watch possible
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 110 counties

Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Richland County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Wayne County, IL, Bartholomew County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clark County, IN, Clay County, IN, Crawford County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Dubois County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Ohio County, IN, Orange County, IN, Owen County, IN, Parke County, IN, Pike County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Washington County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Grant County, KY, Henry County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Preble County, OH, Ross County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Indianapolis radar (KIND), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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 watches that followed

Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.

The nearest sounding before it

Lincoln, IL (KILX), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 271 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -574 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 257 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 22, 5:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Edgar and 16 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 4:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	6 hr
Mar 22, 2:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Belmont, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Morgan and 1 more	88 min
Mar 22, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 5 more	8 hr
Mar 22, 5:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 6 more	114 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2026 Mesoscale Discussions in Illinois, 2026 Every mesoscale discussion in 2026

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.