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Mesoscale Discussion 1319

June 29, 200723 counties in North Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 29, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT for 23 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2007, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 23 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 121 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: 719 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 854 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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
Jun 29, 12:07 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alexander, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Clay and 17 more	53 min
Jun 29, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Cabarrus, Camden and 54 more	8 hr
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, 2007 Every 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.