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Mesoscale Discussion 69

February 6, 20259 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 6, 2025, 9:52 AM EST for 9 counties in Kentucky; 7 counties in Virginia; McDowell County, West Virginia. It was in force for 83 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Feb 6, 2025, 9:52 AM EST (14:52 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2025, 11:15 AM EST
In force: 83 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Tornado watch 3

Counties Bell County, KY, Clay County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Perry County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Buchanan County, VA, City of Norton, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Russell County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Wise County, VA, McDowell County, WV

The radar

The Jackson,KY radar (KJKL), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:54 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 446 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 6, 1:08 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Butler, Calloway and 36 more	2 hr
Feb 6, 5:19 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 61 more	86 min
Feb 6, 6:13 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 51 more	5 hr
Feb 6, 8:12 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adair, Barren, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 24 more	93 min
Feb 6, 2:21 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCreary and 1 more	2 hr
Feb 6, 5:10 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allen, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland, Harlan and 13 more	2 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Kentucky, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2025 Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2025 Every mesoscale discussion in 2025

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.