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Mesoscale Discussion 247
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 28, 2020, 10:32 AM EDT for 25 counties in Ohio; 10 counties in Pennsylvania; Hancock County, West Virginia. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 28, 2020, 10:32 AM EDT (14:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2020, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 36 counties
Ashland County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Erie County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Morrow 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, Wyandot County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Hancock County, WV
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:33 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 885 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 719 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 28, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Brown and 57 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 4:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll, Champaign and 34 more | 87 min |
| Mar 28, 7:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clinton, Darke, Delaware and 20 more | 61 min |
| Mar 28, 5:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon and 1 more | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2020Every mesoscale discussion in 2020
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.