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Mesoscale Discussion 32
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 22, 2026, 8:52 AM EST for 45 counties in New York; 6 counties in Pennsylvania; Addison County, Chittenden County, Grand Isle County, Vermont. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2026, 8:52 AM EST (13:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 22, 2026, 12:45 PM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Concerning
- Snow squall
All 54 counties
Albany County, NY, Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Erie County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA, Addison County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:54 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1245 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 120 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 249 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 21, 10:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe and 7 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 22, 6:17 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Jefferson, Lewis | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in New York, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Pennsylvania, 2026Mesoscale Discussions in Vermont, 2026Every mesoscale discussion in 2026
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.