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Mesoscale Discussion 589
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2016, 6:19 PM EDT for 29 counties in Kentucky; Gallia County, Lawrence County, Ohio; 6 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2016, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2016, 7:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 60%
All 37 counties
Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Gallia County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Mason County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 10 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 1038 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 244 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 10:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 93 min |
| May 10, 1:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 50 more | 67 min |
| May 10, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boone and 75 more | 9 hr |
| May 10, 4:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 13 more | 67 min |
| May 10, 4:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 49 more | 61 min |
| May 10, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 31 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.