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Mesoscale Discussion 1388

August 29, 201834 counties in Ohio; 5 counties in Pennsylvania; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 29, 2018, 2:55 PM EDT for 34 counties in Ohio; 5 counties in Pennsylvania; Brooke County, Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Aug 29, 2018, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 29, 2018, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 20%

All 41 counties

Ashland County, OH, Ashtabula County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lake County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Beaver County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 35 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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

Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 667 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted.

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2018 Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.