Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2004
Mesoscale Discussion 2469
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Nov 24, 2004, 4:50 PM EST for 32 counties in North Carolina; 13 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Nov 24, 2004, 4:50 PM EST (21:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 24, 2004, 6:45 PM EST
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Berkeley County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 513 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 233 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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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 24, 10:23 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 97 min |
| Nov 24, 10:40 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 6 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:13 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Cumberland, Duplin and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Nov 24, 3:25 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham and 29 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2004Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.