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Mesoscale Discussion 1025

May 30, 20114 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 30, 2011, 12:28 AM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 92 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 30, 2011, 12:28 AM EDT (04:28 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
92 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:28 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 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 84 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 00:00Z on 2011-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 654 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 00:00Z on 2011-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 136 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
654 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1535 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
237 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.2
Supercell composite
1.4

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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
May 29, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 21 more5 hr
May 29, 9:47 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Cortland and 17 more58 min
May 30, 3:46 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBronx, Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond and 3 more119 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Massachusetts, 2011Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2011Every mesoscale discussion in 2011

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.