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Mesoscale Discussion 1870

July 25, 2005Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Virginia; 15 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 25, 2005, 7:09 PM EDT for Lawrence County, Ohio; 4 counties in Virginia; 15 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 2005, 7:09 PM EDT (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2005, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Lawrence County, OH, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, City of Covington, VA, Craig County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 192 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: 310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1178 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 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
Jul 24, 11:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Geauga, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more	92 min
Jul 24, 11:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashtabula, Trumbull	4 hr
Jul 25, 9:53 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Defiance and 29 more	97 min
Jul 25, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Defiance, Erie and 21 more	8 hr
Jul 25, 12:57 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 35 more	93 min
Jul 25, 2:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Guernsey, Harrison and 10 more	5 hr
Jul 25, 2:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Auglaize, Crawford, Erie, Hardin, Huron and 6 more	67 min
Jul 25, 3:13 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Athens, Champaign, Clark, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin and 7 more	92 min
Jul 25, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Athens, Gallia, Hocking, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan and 3 more	4 hr
Jul 25, 5:33 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 64 more	57 min
Jul 25, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Albemarle, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Fluvanna and 20 more	3 hr
Jul 25, 7:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Albemarle, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Fluvanna and 18 more	56 min
Jul 25, 6:21 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Monongalia, Preston	24 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.