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Mesoscale Discussion 931

June 1, 2019Trumbull County, Ohio; 27 counties in Pennsylvania

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 1, 2019, 5:53 PM EDT for Trumbull County, Ohio; 27 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 97 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 1, 2019, 5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)
Expired
Jun 1, 2019, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
97 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 28 counties

Trumbull County, OH, Armstrong County, PA, Bradford County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Potter County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Venango County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 163 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 52 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1514 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 1, 11:49 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCFulton, Lucas, Williams116 min
Jun 1, 3:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAshtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Lake, Lorain, Lucas and 3 more116 min
Jun 1, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAshland, Ashtabula, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga and 18 more6 hr
Jun 1, 4:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Williams2 hr
Jun 1, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDefiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Williams5 hr
Jun 1, 7:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Crawford, Defiance, Delaware, Fulton, Hancock and 12 more96 min
Jun 1, 2:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Elk, Erie, Forest, McKean, Potter and 2 more2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2019Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 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.