Alert archive / Kentucky / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 174
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 6, 2008, 2:48 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 6, 2008, 2:48 AM EST (07:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 6, 2008, 4:15 AM EST
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 99 counties
Bath County, KY, Bell County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson 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, Lewis County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Greene County, PA, Dickenson County, VA, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer 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, Mingo County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:47 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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 537 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 74 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 379 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 5, 7:15 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Boyle, Bracken and 49 more | 90 min |
| Feb 5, 8:08 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:07 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 5 more | 83 min |
| Feb 5, 10:19 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 99 more | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 12:41 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd and 44 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:31 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Leslie, Letcher and 3 more | 3 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Letcher | 86 min |
| Feb 6, 8:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Pike | 116 min |
| Feb 6, 11:54 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone, Bourbon and 77 more | 96 min |
| Feb 6, 6:09 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Butler, Cambria and 6 more | 66 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.