Alert archive / New Jersey / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2222
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 22, 2003, 4:10 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2003, 4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 44 counties
New Castle County, DE, Berkshire County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Providence County, RI
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 728 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -138 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1150 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 22, 12:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min | |
| Aug 22, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr | |
| Aug 22, 7:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min | |
| Aug 22, 3:27 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Allegheny, Armstrong, Bedford, Berks, Blair and 39 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Connecticut, 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.