Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 2350
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 21, 2005, 8:36 PM EDT for 27 counties in North Carolina; 19 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 114 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 21, 2005, 8:36 PM EDT (00:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 21, 2005, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 114 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 46 counties
Anson County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:38 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -218 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 601 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 262 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 395 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.5
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 22, 3:32 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Cumberland, Duplin, Greene, Lenoir and 5 more | 88 min |
| Oct 22, 12:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Craven, Currituck and 20 more | 118 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2005Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2005Every mesoscale discussion in 2005
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.