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Mesoscale Discussion 563

May 10, 202028 counties in Kentucky; 52 counties in Ohio; 22 counties in West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 10, 2020, 6:36 PM EDT for 28 counties in Kentucky; 52 counties in Ohio; 22 counties in West Virginia. It was in force for 24 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 2020, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 102 counties

Bath County, KY, Bourbon County, KY, Boyd County, KY, Bracken County, KY, Carter County, KY, Clark County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Estill County, KY, Fayette County, KY, Fleming County, KY, Greenup County, KY, Harrison County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Lewis County, KY, Madison County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Mason County, KY, Menifee County, KY, Montgomery County, KY, Morgan County, KY, Nicholas County, KY, Powell County, KY, Robertson County, KY, Rowan County, KY, Scott County, KY, Wolfe County, KY, Adams County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Athens County, OH, Belmont County, OH, Brown County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Clinton County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Coshocton County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Cuyahoga County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Fairfield County, OH, Fayette County, OH, Franklin County, OH, Gallia County, OH, Guernsey County, OH, Harrison County, OH, Highland County, OH, Hocking County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Jackson County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Knox County, OH, Lawrence County, OH, Licking County, OH, Lorain County, OH, Madison County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Meigs County, OH, Monroe County, OH, Morgan County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Muskingum County, OH, Noble County, OH, Perry County, OH, Pickaway County, OH, Pike County, OH, Portage County, OH, Richland County, OH, Ross County, OH, Scioto County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Tuscarawas County, OH, Union County, OH, Vinton County, OH, Washington County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Boone County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Calhoun County, WV, Doddridge County, WV, Gilmer County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Jackson County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Marshall County, WV, Mason County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Pleasants County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Ritchie County, WV, Roane County, WV, Tyler County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wetzel County, WV, Wirt County, WV, Wood County, WV

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:39 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

Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 102 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2020-05-10Temperature 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, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2020-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2140 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
173 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
May 10, 12:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAnderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt and 24 more2 hr
May 10, 4:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Ashland, Athens, Brown, Carroll, Coshocton and 34 more119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Ohio, 2020Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 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.