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Mesoscale Discussion 1513
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 14, 2006, 2:11 PM EDT for 34 counties in North Carolina; 23 counties in Tennessee; 23 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2006, 2:11 PM EDT (18:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2006, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 80 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Graham County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Carter County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Polk County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Washington County, TN, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Radford, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 261 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
- 74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -101 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 741 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 109 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 8:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Camden, Caswell, Chatham, Chowan and 24 more | 65 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Tennessee, 2006Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2006Every mesoscale discussion in 2006
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.