Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1262
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 3, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 2014, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 80%
All 55 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rensselaer 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, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:32 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 56 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -251 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1010 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Service Notice</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
<main class="wrap">
<section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
<div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
<h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
<p id="message1">
The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
</p>
<p id="message2">
Please try again in a few minutes.
</p>
<p class="small" id="detail">
If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
</p>
</section>
</main>
<script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 10 hr |
| Jul 3, 4:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr | |
| Jul 3, 7:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr | |
| Jul 3, 11:57 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Sussex, Warren | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 12:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Fulton, Madison and 8 more | 64 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2014Every 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.