Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2126
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 31, 2005, 2:47 AM EDT for 10 counties in New York; 38 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 31, 2005, 2:47 AM EDT (06:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 31, 2005, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Bradford County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Elk County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mifflin County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Potter County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:47 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 211 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 808 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 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 31, 2:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Delaware, Schuyler and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 31, 7:22 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland and 11 more | 83 min |
| Aug 31, 2:40 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Washington | 95 min |
| Aug 30, 10:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Carbon, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin and 9 more | 116 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 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.