Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2064
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 10, 2008, 1:05 PM EDT for 8 states. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 2008, 1:05 PM EDT (17:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2008, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 69 counties
Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Berkshire County, MA, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Harford County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Cape May County, NJ, Cumberland County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Kings County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Pike County, PA, Accomack County, VA, Bennington County, VT, Rutland County, VT
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 227 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1366 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 10:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 33 min | |
| Aug 10, 10:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region | 10 hr |
| Aug 10, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Dorchester and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Carroll, Frederick, Montgomery, Washington | 84 min |
| Aug 10, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Oneida and 3 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 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.