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Mesoscale Discussion 47

February 4, 20184 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 4, 2018, 6:32 PM EST for 4 states. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Feb 4, 2018, 6:32 PM EST (23:32 UTC)
Expired
Feb 4, 2018, 10:30 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties

Sussex County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Adams County, PA, Berks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Columbia County, PA, Cumberland County, PA, Dauphin County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Lebanon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montour County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Northumberland County, PA, Perry County, PA, Pike County, PA, Schuylkill County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, York County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:35 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 2018-02-04Temperature 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 2018-02-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 389 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1235 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
389 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
391 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2018Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 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.