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Mesoscale Discussion 293
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 26, 2026, 7:40 PM EDT for 38 counties in Ohio; 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2026, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2026, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Tornado watch 75
All 44 counties
Allen County, OH, Ashland County, OH, Auglaize County, OH, Carroll County, OH, Champaign County, OH, Clark County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Crawford County, OH, Darke County, OH, Delaware County, OH, Erie County, OH, Geauga County, OH, Hancock County, OH, Hardin County, OH, Holmes County, OH, Huron County, OH, Knox County, OH, Logan County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Marion County, OH, Medina County, OH, Mercer County, OH, Miami County, OH, Morrow County, OH, Portage County, OH, Putnam County, OH, Richland County, OH, Sandusky County, OH, Seneca County, OH, Shelby County, OH, Stark County, OH, Summit County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Union County, OH, Van Wert County, OH, Wayne County, OH, Wood County, OH, Wyandot County, OH, Beaver County, PA, Butler County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:44 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 246 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 357 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 26, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Darke, Defiance, Mercer, Paulding, Van Wert, Williams | 117 min |
| Mar 26, 4:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont and 61 more | 95 min |
| Mar 26, 4:52 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll and 61 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.