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Mesoscale Discussion 1332

July 9, 20148 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 9, 2014, 7:59 PM EDT for 8 states. It was in force for 91 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 9, 2014, 7:59 PM EDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired: Jul 9, 2014, 9:30 PM EDT
In force: 91 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 57 counties

Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Anne Arundel County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Dorchester County, MD, Harford County, MD, Kent County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Cheshire County, NH, Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden 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, Passaic County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Chester County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 110 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -207 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1145 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 8, 9:55 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC		95 min
Jul 9, 4:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region	6 hr
Jul 9, 3:23 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Kent, New Castle	97 min
Jul 9, 12:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Berkshire	3 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2014 Mesoscale Discussions in Maryland, 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.