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Mesoscale Discussion 174

March 2, 20069 counties in New York; Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; Kent County, Washington County, Rhode Island

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 2, 2006, 9:06 AM EST for 9 counties in New York; Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania; Kent County, Washington County, Rhode Island. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 2, 2006, 9:06 AM EST (14:06 UTC)
Expired: Mar 2, 2006, 3:00 PM EST
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

Counties Broome County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Kent County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:06 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, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1982 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 233 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 377 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
Mar 2, 3:03 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr
Mar 2, 12:20 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 5 more	6 hr
Mar 2, 5:04 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Adams, Armstrong, Berks, Blair, Bucks, Butler and 46 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Connecticut, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2006 Every mesoscale discussion in 2006

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.