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Mesoscale Discussion 232
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 8, 2015, 1:51 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 8, 2015, 1:51 PM EDT (17:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2015, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 86 counties
Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Athens County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Noble County, OH, Washington County, OH, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, Craig County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Highland County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, 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, Greenbrier 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, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Webster County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 213 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
- 487 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -110 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 194 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 8:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 14 more | 62 min |
| Apr 8, 10:16 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 30 more | 119 min |
| Apr 8, 10:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 11:52 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Carter, Elliott and 17 more | 83 min |
| Apr 8, 12:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Oldham | 85 min |
| Apr 8, 2:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 54 more | 2 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson and 12 more | 83 min |
| Apr 8, 5:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle and 50 more | 115 min |
| Apr 8, 6:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Halifax, Henry, Pittsylvania, City of Danville, City of Martinsville | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2015Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2015Every mesoscale discussion in 2015
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.