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Mesoscale Discussion 384

March 31, 2006Ohio County, Indiana; Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; Clermont County, Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 31, 2006, 10:38 PM EST for Ohio County, Indiana; Boone County, Campbell County, Kenton County, Kentucky; Clermont County, Ohio. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 31, 2006, 10:38 PM EST (03:38 UTC)
Expired: Mar 31, 2006, 11:45 PM EST
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Ohio County, IN, Boone County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Clermont County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 207 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 606 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 346 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 406 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 31, 7:17 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dearborn, Franklin, Ripley, Union	88 min
Mar 31, 7:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland and 2 more	4 hr
Mar 31, 9:26 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clark, Crawford, Dubois, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson and 4 more	64 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Indiana, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.