Alert archive / West Virginia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2445
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 14, 2003, 10:45 AM EDT for 8 states. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2003, 10:45 AM EDT (14:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2003, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 125 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Boyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Washington County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Adams County, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Berks County, PA, Blair County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Centre County, PA, Chester County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, York County, PA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Berkeley County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:46 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1384 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 1:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter and 37 more | 86 min |
| Oct 14, 6:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 6 more | 90 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.