Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2003
Mesoscale Discussion 2612
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Dec 14, 2003, 12:14 PM EST for 6 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 14, 2003, 12:14 PM EST (17:14 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 14, 2003, 4:45 PM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 41 counties
Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Belknap County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Bergen County, NJ, Delaware County, NY, Essex County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Washington County, RI, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:16 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 195 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 298 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 14, 6:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr | |
| Dec 14, 6:56 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Belknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Sullivan | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2003Mesoscale Discussions in Massachusetts, 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.