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Mesoscale Discussion 882

May 15, 200622 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, Marion County, South Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 15, 2006, 7:18 PM EDT for 22 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, Marion County, South Carolina. It was in force for 87 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 15, 2006, 7:18 PM EDT (23:18 UTC)
Expired: May 15, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 87 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 24 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 121 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 14, 8:07 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bertie, Chatham, Edgecombe, Greene, Harnett, Johnston and 7 more	83 min
May 14, 9:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Duplin and 15 more	56 min
May 15, 1:44 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 29 more	91 min
May 15, 2:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 25 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2006 Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2006 Every 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.