Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 1978
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 13, 2005, 6:36 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 54 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 13, 2005, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2005, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 62 counties
Barnstable County, MA, Berkshire County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene 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, Schoharie County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Pike County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 1693 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -85 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1119 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 116 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
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 13, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr | |
| Aug 13, 12:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sussex | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Massachusetts, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2005Every 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.