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Mesoscale Discussion 1018

June 5, 20074 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 5, 2007, 6:38 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 37 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 5, 2007, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
Expired
Jun 5, 2007, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
37 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 31 counties

Essex County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Androscoggin County, ME, Cumberland County, ME, Franklin County, ME, Kennebec County, ME, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Somerset County, ME, York County, ME, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Caledonia County, VT, Essex County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Gray, ME (KGYX), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 61 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2007-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Gray, ME at 12:00Z on 2007-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
67 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.

000 
ACUS11 KWNS 052239
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 052238 
MEZ000-MAZ000-NHZ000-VTZ000-CTZ000-052315-

MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1018
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0538 PM CDT TUE JUN 05 2007

AREAS AFFECTED...VT...NH...ME

CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 347...

VALID 052238Z - 052315Z

THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 347
CONTINUES.

A COUPLE OF SEVERE STORMS WERE OCCURRING ALONG WIND SHIFT BOUNDARY
CROSSING PARTS OF SERN NH AND WRN ME THIS EVENING. ANOTHER
PRONOUNCED WIND SHIFT WAS DEVELOPING EAST ACROSS ERN NY/WRN VT ATTM
WITH A GRADUAL INCREASE TO CONVECTIVE INTENSITY NOTED ON THIS WIND
SHIFT...OVER RENSSELAER COUNTY NY AND BENNINGTON COUNTY VT.
OBJECTIVE DATA SUGGESTS THAT..DESPITE RELATIVELY WIDESPREAD
CONVECTION TODAY...A POCKET OF STRONGER SURFACE-BASED INSTABILITY
MAY REMAIN ACROSS FROM THE CT RIVER VALLEY EWD ACROSS MAINE THIS
EVENING. GIVEN STRONG ASCENT ASSOCIATED WITH THE MID/UPPER LEVEL
IMPULSE ROTATING ACROSS THE NORTHEAST...A FEW STRONG TO ISOLATED
SEVERE STORMS MAY PERSIST BEYOND WATCH EXPIRATION. OVERALL HAZARD
APPEARS TOO LIMITED IN TIME AND SPACE FOR AN NEW WATCH. HOWEVER...
PARTS OF WATCH 347 COULD BE LOCALLY EXTENDED IN TIME...IF THIS IS
DEEMED NECESSARY.

..CARBIN.. 06/05/2007

...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...

ATTN...WFO...CAR...GYX...BOX...BTV...ALY...

46577005 46576971 44636934 44156871 43726859 42897022
42086988 42047081 42007204 43197243 43277282 44987257
44987153 45287124 45257085 45937020

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 5, 11:30 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, York2 hr
Jun 5, 12:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Oxford, York7 hr
Jun 5, 4:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAndroscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec, Oxford, York88 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Maine, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in New Hampshire, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007

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.