Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2007
Mesoscale Discussion 1966
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 14, 2007, 4:06 PM EDT for 43 counties in North Carolina; 18 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 14, 2007, 4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 14, 2007, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 61 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:09 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 nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 384 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 7:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Edgecombe, Greene, Harnett, Johnston, Martin, Nash and 4 more | 61 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2007Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 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.