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Mesoscale Discussion 88

January 13, 2005Monroe County, Washington County, Ohio; 15 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 13, 2005, 5:29 PM EST for Monroe County, Washington County, Ohio; 15 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 13, 2005, 5:29 PM EST (22:29 UTC)
Expired: Jan 13, 2005, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 31 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Monroe County, OH, Washington County, OH, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:32 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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: 1254 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 387 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
Jan 13, 12:25 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Adams, Athens, Fayette, Gallia, Highland, Hocking and 10 more	6 hr
Jan 13, 12:58 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Williams	5 hr
Jan 13, 1:48 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana and 43 more	117 min
Jan 13, 2:50 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton, Fairfield and 17 more	4 hr
Jan 13, 10:53 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Lincoln, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, Wayne and 1 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in West 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.