Alert archive / West Virginia / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 59
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 3, 2014, 4:44 AM EST for 6 states. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 3, 2014, 4:44 AM EST (09:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2014, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 92 counties
Floyd County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY, Allegany County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bedford County, PA, Berks County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Centre County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Union County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Barbour County, WV, 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, Mason County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam 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 Sterling radar (KLWX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 94 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 11:21 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 88 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 3, 10:58 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 2 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2014Every 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.