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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 383

July 14, 20165 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 14, 2016, 12:58 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2016, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2016, 5:57 PM EDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 62 counties

Berkshire County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Bronx County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Kings County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Queens County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Carbon County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 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.

What SPC expected

The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.

Two or more tornadoes
10%
One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
2%
Ten or more severe wind reports
40%
One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
10%
Ten or more severe hail reports
20%
One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
10%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
70%

Warnings issued inside it

10 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 2:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren26 min
Jul 14, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIWarren46 min
Jul 14, 2:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPHIWarren29 min
Jul 14, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHIHunterdon, Morris, Warren38 min
Jul 14, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison, Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Washington58 min
Jul 14, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic, Union56 min
Jul 14, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windsor48 min
Jul 14, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCaledonia, Essex, Lamoille, Orleans, Washington53 min
Jul 14, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKXBronx, Nassau, New York, Queens, Suffolk, Westchester63 min
Jul 14, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVCaledonia, Essex, Orange48 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 86 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 18 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 98 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
18 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-138 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
776 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
98 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 10:05 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkshire115 min
Jul 14, 3:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBerkshire88 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2016Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.