Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 1902
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 24, 2008, 6:03 PM EDT for 34 counties in New York; Addison County, Chittenden County, Grand Isle County, Vermont. It was in force for 87 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2008, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Erie County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Addison County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 196 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
- 92 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 9:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bronx, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Kings, Nassau and 10 more | 64 min |
| Jul 23, 9:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albany, Bronx, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Kings and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bronx, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Kings, Nassau and 9 more | 53 min |
| Jul 24, 1:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 16 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2008Every mesoscale discussion in 2008
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.