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Mesoscale Discussion 1736
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 26, 2016, 1:58 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 26, 2016, 1:58 PM EDT (17:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 26, 2016, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 67 counties
Floyd County, KY, Knott County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Martin County, KY, Pike County, KY, Garrett County, MD, Fayette County, PA, Greene County, PA, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt 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, Highland County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Russell County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wise County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant 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, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Preston County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers 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, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 274 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
- 82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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.