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Mesoscale Discussion 176

March 5, 200422 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 5, 2004, 5:40 PM EST for 22 counties in Kentucky; 11 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 5, 2004, 5:40 PM EST (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 5, 2004, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 45 counties

Bath County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Noble County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The nearest sounding before it

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 94 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 597 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 583 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 4, 10:24 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fulton	66 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2004 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2004 Every mesoscale discussion in 2004

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.