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Mesoscale Discussion 1395
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 15, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT for 74 counties in North Carolina; 5 counties in Tennessee; 20 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 90 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2003, 2:00 PM EDT (18:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 90 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 99 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Madison County, NC, Martin County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Carter County, TN, Greene County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Brunswick County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Grayson County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 111 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:00 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 600 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.