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Mesoscale Discussion 153
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 24, 2016, 10:39 PM EST for 16 counties in New Jersey; 11 counties in New York; Bucks County, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 10:39 PM EST (03:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 11:45 PM EST
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 29 counties
Bergen County, NJ, Burlington County, NJ, Camden 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, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx 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, Westchester County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Philadelphia County, PA
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 122 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -81 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 479 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 529 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 504 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 7:44 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region, Naugatuck Valley Planning Region, Southeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:51 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Capitol Planning Region, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region | 4 hr |
| Feb 25, 2:40 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New Jersey, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Connecticut, 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.