Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1316
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2007, 12:07 PM EDT for 23 counties in North Carolina; Spartanburg County, South Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2007, 12:07 PM EDT (16:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 29, 2007, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 24 counties
Alexander County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Spartanburg County, SC
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:09 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 12:00Z, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 170 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1018 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 1:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 54 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Greene and 17 more | 90 min |
| Jun 29, 7:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Cabarrus and 61 more | 67 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2007Every mesoscale discussion in 2007
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.