Alert archive / Ohio / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003

Mesoscale Discussion 667

May 1, 20035 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 1, 2003, 3:10 PM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 95 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2003, 3:10 PM EST (20:10 UTC)
Expired
May 1, 2003, 4:45 PM EST
In force
95 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 140 counties

Adams County, IN, Bartholomew County, IN, Blackford County, IN, Boone County, IN, Brown County, IN, Clay County, IN, Clinton County, IN, Daviess County, IN, Dearborn County, IN, Decatur County, IN, Delaware County, IN, Fayette County, IN, Franklin County, IN, Grant County, IN, Greene County, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hancock County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Henry County, IN, Howard County, IN, Jackson County, IN, Jay County, IN, Jennings County, IN, Johnson County, IN, Lawrence County, IN, Madison County, IN, Marion County, IN, Martin County, IN, Monroe County, IN, Montgomery County, IN, Morgan County, IN, Owen County, IN, Putnam County, IN, Randolph County, IN, Ripley County, IN, Rush County, IN, Shelby County, IN, Tipton County, IN, Union County, IN, Wayne County, IN, Wells County, IN, Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Butler County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Portage County, OH, Preble County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Potter County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA, Washington County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-05-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 93 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2003-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 122 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
93 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1359 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
122 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 30, 7:31 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Jasper and 15 more119 min
Apr 30, 10:31 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, DeKalb, Elkhart, Fulton, Huntington, Jasper and 15 more89 min
Apr 30, 10:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Porter5 hr
May 1, 1:19 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBenton, Jasper, Lake, Newton86 min
May 1, 7:51 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBartholomew, Brown, Clay, Daviess, Dubois, Gibson and 22 more114 min
May 1, 12:09 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Allen, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass and 26 more3 hr
May 1, 12:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCrawford, Dubois, Floyd, Gibson, Harrison, Perry and 5 more5 hr
May 1, 12:50 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bartholomew, Blackford, Boone, Brown, Clay and 43 more5 hr
May 1, 11:41 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 20 more3 hr
May 1, 12:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango and 24 more6 hr
May 1, 3:25 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClinton, Essex, Franklin, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 2 more5 hr
Apr 30, 8:48 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 25 more87 min
May 1, 2:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Brown, Clermont, Highland, Jackson, Pike and 2 more5 hr
May 1, 5:11 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Jackson and 4 more94 min
May 1, 5:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Auglaize, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton and 24 more4 hr
May 1, 6:10 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Brown, Clermont, Hamilton, Highland, Jackson and 4 more95 min
May 1, 5:02 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cumberland, Dauphin and 13 more3 hr
May 1, 10:22 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCGreenbrier, McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Summers113 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 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.