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Mesoscale Discussion 943
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2019, 12:24 PM EDT for 51 counties in Virginia; 28 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 2019, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 2019, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 79 counties
Albemarle County, VA, Alleghany County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Augusta County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Caroline County, VA, City of Buena Vista, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Harrisonburg, VA, City of Lexington, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, City of Staunton, VA, City of Waynesboro, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Craig County, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Giles County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greene County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Highland County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Madison County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Nelson County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Orange County, VA, Page County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Rockbridge County, VA, Rockingham County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Spotsylvania County, VA, Warren County, VA, Barbour County, WV, Boone County, WV, Braxton County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Clay County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Grant County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Harrison County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lewis County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pendleton County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Randolph County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Summers County, WV, Taylor County, WV, Tucker County, WV, Upshur County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 111 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
- 50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 987 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 2, 3:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Arlington, Augusta, Bath and 47 more | 87 min |
| Jun 2, 5:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Accomack, Arlington, Caroline, Culpeper, Essex, Fairfax and 26 more | 93 min |
| Jun 2, 6:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Amherst, Augusta, Bath, Botetourt, Craig and 9 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 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.