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June 2013 Observations and Discussions


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The good news is that the 12z NAM sends a pretty potent batch of rain over Long Island and New England late Saturday and early Sunday just clipping the city. Bad news is that it looks pretty potent and someone is going to get a lot more rain.

 

 

Why is it bad news?

 

Long island is not underwater, and rarely floods. The sandy soil drains very quickly, unlike areas of NJ and upstate with clay and bedrock, which get oversaturated.

 

Over the past 11 days i have seen 0.06 of an inch, and only .50 inch on the past 2 weeks. Much of Long Island has similar numbers.

 

Stop being so dramatic.

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Why is it bad news?

 

Long island is not underwater, and rarely floods. The sandy soil drains very quickly, unlike areas of NJ and upstate with clay and bedrock, which get oversaturated.

 

Over the past 11 days i have seen 0.06 of an inch, and only .50 inch on the past 2 weeks. Much of Long Island has similar numbers.

 

Stop being so dramatic.

I said the good news is that the NAM sends it over Long Island and not western areas that are more water logged

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The 12z GFS has 700-500mb lapse rates between 6.0-6.5 C/km this afternoon and evening. We should be able to advect at least some modest lapse rates into region, with the mid-level flow increasing from SW to NE today. Shear will be stronger and deeper late this afternoon as well.

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the 10.10" of rainfall NYC has in June is the first 10" rainfall month since August 2011...seven of the last eleven years had a month with at least 10" of rainfall...

amount month year...

10.10" June 2013
18.95" August 2011
10.69" March 2010

10.06" June 2009
13.05" April 2007
16.73" October 2005
11.51" September 2004
10.27" June 2003
12.36" August 1990
10.24" May 1989
14.01" April 1983
10.54" March 1983
10.41" March 1980
10.52" January 1979
12.26" November 1977
11.77" July 1975
12.41" November 1972
10.86" August 1955
10.30" September 1944
11.96" September 1934
10.09" September 1933
12.97" October 1913
13.31" October 1903
11.89" July 1889
16.85" September 1882

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That may be the beginnings of an MCS trying to form up in NW PA. A line of storms has recently gone severe with a fairly large rain shield building in behind it. We'll have to see if this is the case. The 4k NAM has been hinting at this possibility. The 12z SPC WRF brings a fairly potent looking line into the area later.

 

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   MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1285   NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK   1202 PM CDT FRI JUN 28 2013   AREAS AFFECTED...PORTIONS OH...PA...MD...SERN LOWER   MI...DC...WV...NRN VA...EXTREME SRN PORTIONS WRN NY.   CONCERNING...SEVERE POTENTIAL...WATCH LIKELY    VALID 281702Z - 281900Z   PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...95 PERCENT   SUMMARY...WW IS REQUIRED FOR PORTIONS SRN PA...MD...NRN VA AND   WV...AND ANOTHER WW IS POSSIBLE ELSEWHERE ACROSS BROADER DISCUSSION   AREA AS TRENDS INDICATE.   DISCUSSION...BROAD AREA OF TSTMS HAS BEEN GRADUALLY BUILDING FROM   SERN LOWER MI EWD ACROSS UPPER OH VALLEY REGION AND INTO N-CENTRAL   APPALACHIANS.  INITIALLY WIDELY SCATTERED COVERAGE SHOULD BECOME   MORE DENSE...AND CONVECTION MORE INTENSE...WHILE MOVING INTO   INCREASINGLY UNSTABLE BOUNDARY LAYER.  MAIN CONCERN IS DAMAGING   WIND...WITH OCNL HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE.   CONVECTION HAS FORMED IN DECREASINGLY CAPPED AIR MASS...ON BOTH   SIDES OF ILL-DEFINED FRONTAL ZONE EXTENDING SWWD FROM SFC LOW OVER   UPPER HUDSON RIVER REGION.  SFC DEW POINTS GENERALLY 60S F...BUT   INCREASING TO NEAR 70 AROUND CHESAPEAKE BAY AND DE VALLEY   REGIONS...COMBINE WITH SFC DIABATIC HEATING OF PRECONVECTIVE AIR   MASS TO YIELD 1000-1500 J/KG MLCAPE IN MODIFIED RAOBS AND FCST   SOUNDINGS.  KINEMATIC PROFILES ARE MOSTLY WLY AND NEARLY   UNIDIRECTIONAL...INDICATING PREDOMINANT QUASI-LINEAR EVOLUTION WITH   DAMAGING GUSTS BEING GREATEST CONCERN.  DEEP SHEAR INCREASES WITH   SWD EXTENT FROM UPPER GREAT LAKES INTO PORTIONS WV AND NRN VA...WITH   EFFECTIVE SHEAR MAGNITUDES PEAKING AROUND 50 KT OVER LATTER AREAS.    MOST PROBABLE AREA FOR UPSCALE ORGANIZATION/GROWTH APPEARS TO BE ON   NRN FRINGES OF STRONGER SHEAR BELT...WHERE TSTMS HAVE COALESCED   ACROSS PORTIONS SERN OH...NRN WV PANHANDLE AND SWRN PA.  ANY SUCH   EVOLUTION WOULD DRIVE FORWARD-PROPAGATING MCS EWD TO ESEWD ASTRIDE   PA/MD BORDER REGION...EVENTUALLY WITH POTENTIAL TO AFFECT CHESAPEAKE   BAY/DE RIVER REGIONS.   ..EDWARDS/MEAD.. 06/28/2013   ATTN...WFO...PHI...BGM...BUF...CTP...LWX...PBZ...RLX...CLE...   ILN...DTX...IWX...   LAT...LON   38667940 38978194 40048400 42218382 42248288 42098312               41788341 41688333 41568306 41528274 41388259 41448235               41548205 41468170 41808129 41917972 42147871 41897680               41207579 40477525 39557611 38727708 38667940 
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URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 387
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
210 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
DELAWARE
CENTRAL AND EASTERN MARYLAND
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY
SOUTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA
NORTHEAST VIRGINIA
COASTAL WATERS

* EFFECTIVE THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 210 PM UNTIL
900 PM EDT.

* PRIMARY THREATS INCLUDE...
SEVERAL DAMAGING WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH POSSIBLE

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75
STATUTE MILES EAST AND WEST OF A LINE FROM 40 MILES SOUTH
SOUTHEAST OF WASHINGTON DISTRICT OF COLUM TO 15 MILES NORTH OF
TRENTON NEW JERSEY. FOR A COMPLETE DEPICTION OF THE WATCH SEE
THE ASSOCIATED WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE (WOUS64 KWNS WOU7).

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH
AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY
DO PRODUCE TORNADOES.

&&

OTHER WATCH INFORMATION...CONTINUE...WW 385...WW 386...

DISCUSSION...A FURTHER INCREASE IN TSTM COVERAGE IS ANTICIPATED THIS
AFTERNOON ALONG A DEVELOPING LEE TROUGH WERE THE ENVIRONMENT HAS
BECOME UNCAPPED WITH MLCAPE APPROACHING 2000 J/KG. CURRENT VAD DATA
INDICATE THAT 50 KT WLY WINDS HAVE OVERSPREAD THE REGION AT 6 KM AGL
WHICH IS RESULTING IN SUFFICIENT VERTICAL SHEAR FOR SUPERCELLS AND
BOWING STRUCTURES CAPABLE OF DAMAGING WINDS AND PERHAPS SOME HAIL.

AVIATION...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HAIL SURFACE AND ALOFT
TO 1.5 INCHES. EXTREME TURBULENCE AND SURFACE WIND GUSTS TO 60
KNOTS. A FEW CUMULONIMBI WITH MAXIMUM TOPS TO 500. MEAN STORM
MOTION VECTOR 27030.

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12z euro has very little rain over the weekend.

It has Monday as a complete washout with rain all day with 1"-1.25" totals in the NYC area.

Yeah most of the models today have trended towards a drier Saturday with rain on Sunday night into Monday. Obvious differences in timing.

 

Starting to wonder if that mess out in PA is just going to congeal into one solid convective mass.

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12z euro has very little rain over the weekend.

It has Monday as a complete washout with rain all day with 1"-1.25" totals in the NYC area.

 

 

You can add Tuesday as a very rainy day as well on the Euro. All day rain and over 1" of rain on that day alone as well.

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You can add Tuesday as a very rainy day as well on the Euro. All day rain and over 1" of rain on that day alone as well.

 

It looks like all the rain will fall before 8pm on the 4th so the fireworks would be able to go on if they aren't cancelled.

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The flow today is much more to the ENE today than it was yesterday. This favors more of a SW to NE storm movement so most of the activity out in PA should make it here provided it doesn't fall apart before then. That huge tongue of deep moisture advecting into New England is quite impressive.

 

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