Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 1893
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 5, 2004, 3:32 PM EDT for 14 counties in Georgia; 49 counties in North Carolina; 32 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 88 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2004, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 88 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 95 counties
Burke County, GA, Columbia County, GA, Elbert County, GA, Glascock County, GA, Greene County, GA, Hancock County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lincoln County, GA, McDuffie County, GA, Oglethorpe County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Taliaferro County, GA, Warren County, GA, Wilkes County, GA, Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 275 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -84 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1447 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Hancock, Hart, Lincoln, McDuffie and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Butts, Carroll, Chattooga and 32 more | 94 min |
| Aug 5, 5:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Columbia, Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond, Warren | 91 min |
| Aug 5, 10:59 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus and 52 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2004Every mesoscale discussion in 2004
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.