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Mesoscale Discussion 729

June 13, 201813 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 13, 2018, 10:46 PM EDT for 13 counties in New Jersey; 4 counties in New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 2018, 10:46 PM EDT (02:46 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2018, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch
5%
All 21 counties

Bergen County, NJ, Essex 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, Kings County, NY, New York County, NY, Queens County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Northampton County, PA

The radar

The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:48 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, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 163 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2018-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 11 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, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2018-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 225 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
11 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-172 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
604 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
260 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:43 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Bedford, Blair, Butler and 32 more62 min

Nearby

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