Alert archive / West Virginia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2294
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 29, 2005, 3:40 AM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 29, 2005, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 29, 2005, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 116 counties
Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Garrett County, MD, Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Washington County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Russell County, VA, Wise County, VA, Barbour 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, Hancock County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:39 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 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 1815 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 8:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 4 more | 85 min |
| Sep 29, 4:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 29, 6:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Bronx, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango and 39 more | 66 min |
| Sep 29, 6:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 29, 8:23 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chenango, Clinton, Delaware, Essex and 17 more | 97 min |
| Sep 29, 10:58 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Sep 29, 12:09 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam and 8 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2005Every 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.