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Mesoscale Discussion 1892

July 27, 20057 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 27, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 93 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 27, 2005, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 27, 2005, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 93 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 36 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Bergen County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 142 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 877 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 27, 11:55 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
Jul 27, 1:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC		7 hr
Jul 27, 3:08 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		2 hr
Jul 27, 7:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		30 min
Jul 27, 1:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex and 12 more	8 hr
Jul 27, 3:35 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cumberland, Gloucester, Hudson and 8 more	115 min
Jul 27, 6:32 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Essex and 10 more	88 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Connecticut, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Massachusetts, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in New Hampshire, 2005 Every mesoscale discussion in 2005

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.