Alert archive / Ohio / Mesoscale Discussions in 2006
Mesoscale Discussion 977
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 25, 2006, 7:04 PM EDT for 17 counties in Ohio; 13 counties in Pennsylvania; 7 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 25, 2006, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2006, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Ashtabula County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Noble County, OH, Portage County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Forest County, PA, Greene County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wetzel County, WV
The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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
- 1882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 1:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock and 9 more | 2 hr |
| May 25, 2:34 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Auglaize, Darke, Defiance, Fulton, Hancock and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 25, 3:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Athens, Brown, Champaign, Clark and 51 more | 54 min |
| May 25, 3:43 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adams, Ashland, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark and 36 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2006Every 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.