Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 15
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 3, 2003, 10:28 AM EST for 33 counties in New York; 10 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 3, 2003, 10:28 AM EST (15:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2003, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 43 counties
Albany County, NY, Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Greene County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Pike County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 46 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:29 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 462 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 239 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 309 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 9:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester | 4 hr |
| Jan 3, 1:32 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland, Delaware and 20 more | 7 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2003Every mesoscale discussion in 2003
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.