Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2005
Mesoscale Discussion 97
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 14, 2005, 3:56 AM EST for 30 counties in North Carolina; Darlington County, Dillon County, Marlboro County, South Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2005, 3:56 AM EST (08:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 14, 2005, 5:00 AM EST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 33 counties
Bladen County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Marlboro County, SC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 495 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 7:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 9 more | 87 min |
| Jan 13, 9:41 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Davie and 8 more | 94 min |
| Jan 13, 10:58 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Caswell and 27 more | 62 min |
| Jan 13, 11:40 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:26 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus and 34 more | 94 min |
| Jan 14, 5:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Edgecombe, Franklin, Gates and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 14, 7:05 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Edgecombe and 11 more | 85 min |
| Jan 14, 10:23 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Craven | 67 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.