Alert archive / West Virginia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 1766
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 10, 2003, 6:57 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 93 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 2003, 6:57 PM EDT (22:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2003, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 93 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 40 counties
Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Bedford County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Highland County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Grant County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:56 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 624 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Garrett | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 6:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Montgomery | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 10:20 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lee, Scott | 85 min |
| Jul 10, 11:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | City of Bristol | 7 hr |
| Jul 10, 5:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Lee, Scott, City of Bristol | 37 min |
| Jul 10, 6:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Augusta and 51 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2003Every mesoscale discussion in 2003
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.