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Mesoscale Discussion 98
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 19, 2026, 11:34 AM CST for 44 counties in Illinois; 49 counties in Indiana; 26 counties in Kentucky. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 19, 2026, 11:34 AM CST (17:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 19, 2026, 1:30 PM CST
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe potential...watch likely
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 119 counties
Bond County, IL, Champaign County, IL, Christian County, IL, Clark County, IL, Clay County, IL, Clinton County, IL, Coles County, IL, Crawford County, IL, Cumberland County, IL, Douglas County, IL, Edgar County, IL, Edwards County, IL, Effingham County, IL, Fayette County, IL, Franklin County, IL, Gallatin County, IL, Hamilton County, IL, Hardin County, IL, Jackson County, IL, Jasper County, IL, Jefferson County, IL, Johnson County, IL, Lawrence County, IL, Macon County, IL, Macoupin County, IL, Madison County, IL, Marion County, IL, Montgomery County, IL, Moultrie County, IL, Perry County, IL, Piatt County, IL, Pope County, IL, Richland County, IL, Saint Clair County, IL, Saline County, IL, Sangamon County, IL, Shelby County, IL, Union County, IL, Vermilion County, IL, Wabash County, IL, Washington County, IL, Wayne County, IL, White County, IL, Williamson 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, Dubois County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Fountain County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Gibson County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jefferson County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Knox County, IN, Lawrence 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, Perry County, IN, Pike County, IN, Posey County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Scott County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Spencer County, IN, Sullivan County, IN, Switzerland County, IN, Vanderburgh County, IN, Vermillion County, IN, Vigo County, IN, Warrick County, IN, Washington County, IN, Anderson County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Crittenden County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Henderson County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Union County, KY, Washington County, KY, Webster County, KY, Woodford County, KY
The radar
The Evansville,IN radar (KVWX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 181 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
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -290 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 783 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 185 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 19, 10:44 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Clinton, Greene, Jersey, Macoupin and 5 more | 91 min |
| Feb 19, 12:20 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Coles, Crawford, Cumberland, Douglas and 15 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 19, 2:56 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clark, Clay, Crawford, Cumberland, Edwards, Effingham and 12 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bond, Clinton, Fayette, Jefferson, Madison, Marion and 5 more | 84 min |
| Feb 19, 9:03 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, DeKalb, Fulton and 10 more | 87 min |
| Feb 19, 5:26 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bartholomew, Brown, Greene, Johnson, Monroe, Owen | 94 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.