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Mesoscale Discussion 2216

September 17, 20057 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 17, 2005, 5:06 PM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 17, 2005, 5:06 PM EDT (21:06 UTC)
Expired: Sep 17, 2005, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 84 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 49 counties

Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Dutchess 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, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Kent County, RI, Providence County, RI

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:07 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 453 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -29 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -41 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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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2005 Mesoscale Discussions in Connecticut, 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.