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Mesoscale Discussion 61
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 14, 2006, 2:19 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 86 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2006, 2:19 AM EST (07:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2006, 3:45 AM EST
- In force
- 86 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 25 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Anne Arundel County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Essex County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA
The radar
The Dover AFB radar (KDOX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:22 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -127 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 170 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 247 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 14, 2:46 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Kent, New Castle, Sussex | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 6:30 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth and 6 more | 90 min |
| Jan 13, 9:00 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brunswick, Greensville, Isle of Wight, Mecklenburg, Southampton, Sussex and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 13, 11:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Accomack, Amelia, Brunswick, Charles City, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie and 39 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:31 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Northampton, York, City of Chesapeake, City of Hampton, City of Norfolk, City of Poquoson and 1 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in Maryland, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Delaware, 2006Every 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.