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Mesoscale Discussion 1425

July 7, 201211 counties in New Jersey; 14 counties in New York; 20 counties in Pennsylvania

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 7, 2012, 1:36 PM EDT for 11 counties in New Jersey; 14 counties in New York; 20 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 84 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 7, 2012, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
Expired
Jul 7, 2012, 3:00 PM EDT
In force
84 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties

Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Snyder County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Union County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 149 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:37 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 335 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 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
335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-291 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1325 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
164 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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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
Jul 7, 11:19 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 7, 11:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCGreater Bridgeport Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region7 hr
Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 7, 5:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAtlantic, Bergen, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland and 14 more62 min
Jul 7, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAtlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester and 9 more3 hr
Jul 7, 1:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCattaraugus57 min
Jul 7, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Blair, Butler, Cambria and 21 more5 hr
Jul 7, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegheny, Beaver, Fayette, Greene, Washington, Westmoreland3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012

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.