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Mesoscale Discussion 1635

August 3, 20076 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 3, 2007, 3:33 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 2007, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 2007, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 49 counties

Hampden County, MA, Baltimore County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Arlington County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Prince William County, VA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 226 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 187 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2007-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 81 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
187 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1432 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 6:01 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Aug 3, 8:43 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlbany, Fulton, Montgomery, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 3 more92 min
Aug 3, 12:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAlbany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Columbia and 30 more9 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 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.