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Mesoscale Discussion 146

February 24, 20169 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Ohio

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 24, 2016, 1:31 PM EST for 9 counties in Kentucky; 21 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 24, 2016, 1:31 PM EST (18:31 UTC)
Expired: Feb 24, 2016, 2:30 PM EST
In force: 59 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 5%

All 30 counties

Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carter County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Butler County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Madison County, OH, Montgomery County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:33 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 21 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: 470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 729 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 886 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 24, 8:14 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Knott and 6 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2016 Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016 Every mesoscale discussion in 2016

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.