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Mesoscale Discussion 971

May 23, 2005Hillsdale County, Lenawee County, Michigan; 45 counties in Ohio; 21 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 23, 2005, 2:12 PM EDT for Hillsdale County, Lenawee County, Michigan; 45 counties in Ohio; 21 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2005, 2:12 PM EDT (18:12 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2005, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 68 counties

Hillsdale County, MI, Lenawee County, MI, Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Defiance County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Fulton County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Henry County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Logan County, OH, Lucas County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Ottawa County, OH, Paulding County, OH, Perry County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Williams County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Barbour County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 171 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: 1543 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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
May 23, 5:36 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Boone, Fayette, Greenbrier, Logan, McDowell, Mercer and 5 more	84 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Michigan, 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.