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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 411

July 23, 20169 counties in New Hampshire; Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, New York; 10 counties in Vermont

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 23, 2016, 3:10 PM EDT for 9 counties in New Hampshire; Clinton County, Essex County, Franklin County, New York; 10 counties in Vermont. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jul 23, 2016, 3:10 PM EDT (19:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 2016, 7:24 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Largest hail expected
1 in
Strongest gust expected
60 kt
All 22 counties

Belknap County, NH, Carroll County, NH, Cheshire County, NH, Grafton County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Merrimack County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Strafford County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Clinton County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Addison County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Burlington radar (KCXX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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
5%
Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
60%

Warnings issued inside it

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVEssex55 min
Jul 23, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll42 min
Jul 23, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVAddison, Caledonia, Orange, Rutland, Washington, Windsor65 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Grafton34 min
Jul 23, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton50 min
Jul 23, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVRutland, Windsor26 min
Jul 23, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan54 min
Jul 23, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Rockingham, Strafford52 min
Jul 23, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll15 min
Jul 23, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXMerrimack, Rockingham43 min
Jul 23, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford21 min
Jul 23, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford67 min
Jul 23, 6:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Rockingham35 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 179 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 2016-07-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2016-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1488 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
75 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 23, 11:46 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBelknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton, Merrimack, Strafford and 1 more119 min
Jul 23, 4:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCBelknap, Carroll, Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack and 3 more92 min
Jul 23, 6:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCCheshire, Hillsborough, Rockingham, Strafford54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Hampshire, 2016Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 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.