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Mesoscale Discussion 237
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 16, 2025, 6:20 PM EDT for 15 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 16, 2025, 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 16, 2025, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Severe thunderstorm watch 54...55
All 22 counties
Albany County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Warren County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 309 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
- 1012 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 485 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 627 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 16, 12:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 97 min |
| Mar 16, 1:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 1:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Erie and 16 more | 93 min |
| Mar 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 16 more | 88 min |
| Mar 16, 10:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 12 more | 86 min |
| Mar 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Crawford and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 16, 12:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bedford, Blair, Cambria, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield and 17 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Cambria, Cameron and 28 more | 53 min |
| Mar 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adams, Berks, Carbon, Columbia, Cumberland, Dauphin and 15 more | 94 min |
Nearby
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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.