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Mesoscale Discussion 58

February 2, 20148 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 2, 2014, 11:21 PM EST for 8 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 2, 2014, 11:21 PM EST (04:21 UTC)
Expired: Feb 3, 2014, 4:45 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 180 counties

Clark County, IN, Floyd County, IN, Harrison County, IN, Perry County, IN, Adair County, KY, Allen County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Breckinridge County, KY, Bullitt County, KY, Butler County, KY, Carroll County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Christian County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Daviess County, KY, Edmonson County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Grayson County, KY, Green County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Hancock County, KY, Hardin County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Hart County, KY, Henry County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jefferson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knox County, KY, Larue County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Logan County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, McLean County, KY, Meade County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Muhlenberg County, KY, Nelson County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Ohio County, KY, Oldham County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Shelby County, KY, Simpson County, KY, Spencer County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Todd County, KY, Trimble County, KY, Warren County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Washington County, MD, Adams County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Pike County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Bedford County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Cheatham County, TN, Clay County, TN, Davidson County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Macon County, TN, Montgomery County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Robertson County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sumner County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Wilson County, TN, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Warren County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Berkeley County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marion County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:21 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 373 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: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 77 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Feb 3, 4:44 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin, Pike	4 hr
Feb 3, 10:58 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bucks, Montgomery	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.