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Mesoscale Discussion 2029

September 27, 20076 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 27, 2007, 7:01 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 89 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Sep 27, 2007, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Sep 27, 2007, 8:30 PM EDT
In force
89 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, ME, Oxford County, ME, Carroll County, NH, Coos County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Adams County, PA, Bradford County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Juniata County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Essex County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:03 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 76 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-09-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 924 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-09-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
924 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
814 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.5

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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
Sep 27, 12:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkshire, Franklin2 hr
Sep 27, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBerkshire8 hr
Sep 27, 1:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Bedford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Huntingdon and 2 more2 hr
Sep 27, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Armstrong, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria and 42 more8 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 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.