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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 253

April 28, 20118 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 28, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT for 8 states. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Apr 28, 2011, 9:45 AM EDT (13:45 UTC)
Expired
Apr 28, 2011, 3:39 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 66 counties

Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Sussex County, DE, Berkshire County, MA, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot 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, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer 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, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:45 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
20%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
5%
Ten or more severe wind reports
30%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
30%
Ten or more severe hail reports
10%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 10:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBerks, Bucks, Chester, Lehigh, Montgomery60 min
Apr 28, 10:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYAlbany, Fulton, Greene, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie and 1 more32 min
Apr 28, 10:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren50 min
Apr 28, 10:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYGreene, Ulster34 min
Apr 28, 10:57 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex, Somerset, Warren63 min
Apr 28, 10:58 AM EDTTornado WarningPHIHunterdon, Warren32 min
Apr 28, 11:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, Warren64 min
Apr 28, 11:22 AM EDTTornado WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Sussex, Warren23 min
Apr 28, 11:37 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIKent, New Castle53 min
Apr 28, 11:42 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKXBergen, Passaic2 hr
Apr 28, 11:43 AM EDTTornado WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic32 min
Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDTTornado WarningPHIMorris30 min
Apr 28, 11:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALYSaratoga, Schenectady, Washington28 min
Apr 28, 12:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic, Union24 min
Apr 28, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery31 min
Apr 28, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Passaic29 min
Apr 28, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester41 min
Apr 28, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIBurlington, Monmouth, Ocean41 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, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 2011-04-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 354 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 12:00Z on 2011-04-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 258 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
354 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
613 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
258 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
254 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.7
Supercell composite
5.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 28, 11:49 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Apr 27, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCKent, New Castle, Sussex8 hr
Apr 28, 4:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCKent, New Castle, Sussex6 hr
Apr 28, 6:21 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, New Castle54 min
Apr 28, 10:44 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, New Castle61 min
Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCKent, Sussex60 min
Apr 28, 12:27 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Frederick, Howard, Montgomery, Washington63 min
Apr 28, 12:41 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 8 more7 hr
Apr 28, 7:38 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAnne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles, Dorchester and 10 more7 hr
Apr 28, 2:41 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCDorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester6 hr
Apr 28, 6:33 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCDorchester, Saint Mary's, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester57 min
Apr 28, 3:32 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCHunterdon, Sussex, Warren28 min
Apr 27, 9:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCayuga, Chemung, Tioga, Tompkins57 min
Apr 27, 10:45 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAlbany, Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Essex, Franklin and 15 more60 min
Apr 28, 2:20 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBroome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Fulton and 13 more55 min
Apr 27, 11:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdams, Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre and 26 more7 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.