Alert archive / New Jersey / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 356
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 5, 2008, 2:32 AM EST for 21 counties in New Jersey; 6 counties in New York; 8 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 5, 2008, 2:32 AM EST (07:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 5, 2008, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 35 counties
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, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Pike County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:34 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
Wallops Is Stn, VA (KWAL), launched 00:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 222 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 5, 12:23 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 67 min |
| Mar 5, 1:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 1 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 3:01 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and 8 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 5, 5:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Suffolk | 96 min |
| Mar 4, 7:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fayette | 56 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 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.