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Mesoscale Discussion 341
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Apr 14, 2019, 12:25 PM CDT for 66 counties in Kentucky; 20 counties in Ohio; Cabell County, Wayne County, West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 14, 2019, 12:25 PM CDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 14, 2019, 2:30 PM CDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 88 counties
Adair County, KY, Anderson County, KY, Bath County, KY, Boone County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Boyle County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Campbell County, KY, Carter County, KY, Casey County, KY, Clark County, KY, Clay County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Franklin County, KY, Gallatin County, KY, Garrard County, KY, Grant County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Jackson County, KY, Jessamine County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Kenton County, KY, Knott County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lee County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Lincoln County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Marion County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Mercer County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Owen County, KY, Owsley County, KY, Pendleton County, KY, Perry County, KY, Powell County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rockcastle County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Russell County, KY, Scott County, KY, Taylor County, KY, Washington County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Woodford County, KY, Adams County, OH, Brown County, OH, Clermont County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Greene County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Warren County, OH, Cabell County, WV, Wayne County, WV
The radar
The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:26 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, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 72 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 629 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 740 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 14, 1:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 52 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 12 more | 116 min |
| Apr 14, 2:46 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 20 more | 59 min |
| Apr 14, 3:11 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashland, Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Coshocton and 29 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Ashtabula, Belmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Geauga, Harrison and 5 more | 63 min |
| Apr 14, 6:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbiana, Jefferson, Mahoning | 54 min |
| Apr 14, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Mineral and 2 more | 9 hr |
| Apr 14, 5:30 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 21 more | 90 min |
| Apr 14, 5:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brooke, Hancock, Marion, Marshall, Monongalia, Ohio and 3 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | McDowell, Mercer, Monroe, Summers | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Barbour, Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette and 19 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2019Every mesoscale discussion in 2019
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.