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Mesoscale Discussion 1372

July 23, 20167 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2016, 2:34 PM EDT for 7 states. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 2016, 2:34 PM EDT (18:34 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
20%
All 77 counties

Kent County, DE, New Castle County, DE, Allegany County, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Calvert County, MD, Caroline County, MD, Carroll County, MD, Cecil County, MD, Charles County, MD, City of Baltimore, MD, Frederick County, MD, Garrett County, MD, Harford County, MD, Howard County, MD, Kent County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Queen Anne's County, MD, Talbot County, MD, Washington County, MD, Cumberland County, NJ, Gloucester County, NJ, Salem County, NJ, Columbiana County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Adams County, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Bedford County, PA, Blair County, PA, Cambria County, PA, Chester County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Delaware County, PA, Fayette County, PA, Franklin County, PA, Fulton County, PA, Greene County, PA, Huntingdon County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Perry County, PA, Somerset County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, York County, PA, Arlington County, VA, City of Alexandria, VA, City of Fairfax, VA, City of Falls Church, VA, City of Manassas, VA, City of Manassas Park, VA, City of Winchester, VA, Clarke County, VA, Fairfax County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Frederick County, VA, Loudoun County, VA, Prince William County, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Shenandoah County, VA, Stafford County, VA, Warren County, VA, Berkeley County, WV, Brooke County, WV, Grant County, WV, Hampshire County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Hardy County, WV, Jefferson County, WV, Mineral County, WV, Monongalia County, WV, Morgan County, WV, Ohio County, WV, Preston County, WV

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:31 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

Washington/Dulle, VA (KIAD), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 71 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2016-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 444 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, Washington/Dulle, VA at 12:00Z on 2016-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 100 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
444 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-145 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1393 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
93 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Maryland, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016

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.