Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 873
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 24, 2004, 5:43 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 47 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 2004, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2004, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm potential 277
All 81 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Orange County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Adams County, PA, Berks County, PA, Bradford County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Union County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, York County, PA, Bennington County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:46 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -444 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 721 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 10:03 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire | 117 min |
| May 24, 11:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkshire, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire | 5 hr |
| May 24, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkshire | 4 hr |
| May 24, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire and 4 more | 95 min |
| May 24, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris and 5 more | 90 min |
| May 23, 11:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cayuga, Essex, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis and 8 more | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Ontario and 6 more | 2 hr |
| May 24, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 10 more | 6 hr |
| May 24, 2:09 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Greene, Washington | 2 hr |
| May 24, 4:55 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 10 more | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
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.