{"id":395,"date":"2007-04-16T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2007\/04\/16\/record-setting-noreaster\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T20:21:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T20:21:55","slug":"record-setting-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/395","title":{"rendered":"Record-setting Nor’easter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA record-setting Nor’easter<\/strong><\/a> storm system intensified over the eastern and northeastern US on 15 April<\/a> <\/strong>\/ 16 April 2007<\/a><\/strong> — this storm produced several tornadoes<\/strong><\/a> (including a fatal EF3 tornado near Mulberry, South Carolina), winds of 70-80 mph with a gust to 156 mph<\/strong> (Mount Washington, New Hampshire), waves to 33 feet<\/strong> (Buoy 44025), snowfall<\/strong><\/a> up to 23 inches<\/strong> (Locke, New York), 9.30 inches<\/strong> of rainfall (Riverdale, New Jersey), and widespread coastal flooding. QuickTime animations of GOES IR<\/strong><\/a>, water vapor<\/strong><\/a>, and visible<\/strong><\/a> channel imagery from AWIPS reveal the unusually large size of the cloud and water vapor fields associated with this powerful Nor’easter.
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The GOES sounder-derived total column ozone product (above)<\/strong><\/em> depicted very high ozone values (400-450 Dobson units, red enhancement) <\/strong>along the western periphery of the storm. A southwest-to-northeast cross section through the storm using GFS model fields (below)<\/strong><\/em> show that the dynamic tropopause<\/em> — assumed to be the 1.5 Potential Vorticity Units (PVU)<\/strong> surface — extended below the 600 hPa pressure level in both the high ozone feature (across northwestern Virginia)<\/em> and also the core of the 500 hPa low (near Long Island, New York).<\/em>
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A record-setting Nor’easter storm system intensified over the eastern and northeastern US on 15 April \/ 16 April 2007 — this storm produced several tornadoes (including a fatal EF3 tornado near Mulberry, South Carolina), winds of 70-80 mph with a gust to 156 mph (Mount Washington, New Hampshire), waves to 33 feet (Buoy 44025), snowfall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19,16,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-12","category-heavy-rain-flooding","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}