Alert archive / New Jersey / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014

Mesoscale Discussion 1

January 2, 20145 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 2, 2014, 8:43 PM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 2, 2014, 8:43 PM EST (01:43 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2014, 1:45 AM EST
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 39 counties

Barnstable County, MA, Bristol County, MA, Dukes County, MA, Essex County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Nantucket County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Plymouth County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Knox County, ME, Lincoln County, ME, Sagadahoc County, ME, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Kings County, NY, Nassau County, NY, New York County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bristol County, RI, Kent County, RI, Newport County, RI, Providence County, RI, Washington County, RI

The radar

The Boston radar (KBOX), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:44 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 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 459 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 605 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 853 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 3:39 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		4 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Massachusetts, 2014 Every mesoscale discussion in 2014

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.