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Tornado Watch 272

June 6, 20108 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this tornado watch at Jun 6, 2010, 11:08 AM EDT for 8 states. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2010, 11:08 AM EDT (15:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2010, 6:39 PM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1.5 in
Strongest gust expected
70 kt
All 92 counties

Capitol Planning Region, CT, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, CT, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, CT, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT, Berkshire County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Atlantic County, NJ, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden 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, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Kings 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, Suffolk County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Washington County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Adams County, PA, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, York County, PA, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI, Bennington County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:11 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
90%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
50%
Ten or more severe wind reports
80%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
60%
Ten or more severe hail reports
50%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
30%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
95%

Warnings issued inside it

25 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 11:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady and 1 more63 min
Jun 6, 12:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire63 min
Jun 6, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYBerkshire60 min
Jun 6, 12:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHISussex65 min
Jun 6, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXFranklin45 min
Jun 6, 1:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region57 min
Jun 6, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIMorris, Sussex, Warren65 min
Jun 6, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford63 min
Jun 6, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie47 min
Jun 6, 1:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCheshire, Hillsborough57 min
Jun 6, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region51 min
Jun 6, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYNorthwest Hills Planning Region56 min
Jun 6, 2:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Rensselaer51 min
Jun 6, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXGreater Bridgeport Planning Region18 min
Jun 6, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham37 min
Jun 6, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXOrange, Putnam, Rockland, Westchester44 min
Jun 6, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region26 min
Jun 6, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region33 min
Jun 6, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex, Worcester44 min
Jun 6, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningBOXCapitol Planning Region29 min
Jun 6, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region24 min
Jun 6, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset34 min
Jun 6, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXNortheastern Connecticut Planning Region30 min
Jun 6, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXMiddlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk, Worcester32 min
Jun 6, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOXEssex, Middlesex, Norfolk, Suffolk33 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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 2010-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2010-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
697 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
781 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 10:25 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jun 6, 2:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jun 6, 11:42 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtlantic, Cape May, Cumberland, Salem63 min
Jun 6, 12:40 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCape May, Cumberland, Salem6 hr
Jun 6, 2:03 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCCattaraugus, Chautauqua7 hr
Jun 6, 3:38 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genesee and 9 more2 hr
Jun 6, 7:05 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben and 1 more115 min
Jun 6, 7:51 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBroome, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga7 hr
Jun 6, 12:30 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCrawford, Erie3 hr

Nearby

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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.