Alert archive / New York / Mesoscale Discussions in 2018
Mesoscale Discussion 105
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 2, 2018, 3:15 AM EST for 5 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 2, 2018, 3:15 AM EST (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 2, 2018, 9:15 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Sussex County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Orange County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:14 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1229 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:43 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 6 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2018Every mesoscale discussion in 2018
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.