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Mesoscale Discussion 268
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 24, 2016, 5:55 PM EDT for 13 counties in Kentucky; 44 counties in Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 24, 2016, 5:55 PM EDT (21:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 24, 2016, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 57 counties
Boone County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Grant County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Mason County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Athens County, OH, Brown County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Clark County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Greene County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Licking County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Medina County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Wayne County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 268 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1531 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 24, 1:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Boyle and 57 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016Every 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.