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Mesoscale Discussion 1949
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 6, 2013, 3:04 PM EDT for 10 counties in Kentucky; 20 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 116 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 6, 2013, 3:04 PM EDT (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 6, 2013, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 116 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 30 counties
Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Mason County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Logan County, OH, Madison County, OH, Marion County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Union County, OH, Warren County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 347 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
- 561 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -32 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 845 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 5, 8:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Calloway and 27 more | 119 min |
| Oct 5, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Graves, Henderson, Hopkins and 6 more | 97 min |
| Oct 6, 12:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Jefferson, Meade, Oldham, Shelby and 1 more | 56 min |
| Oct 6, 2:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Carroll, Christian and 14 more | 58 min |
| Oct 6, 1:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Bath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Casey and 30 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2013Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2013Every mesoscale discussion in 2013
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.