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Mesoscale Discussion 1879

July 23, 2008Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Maryland; 47 counties in North Carolina; 51 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 23, 2008, 3:54 PM EDT for Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Maryland; 47 counties in North Carolina; 51 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2008, 3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2008, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 101 counties

Dorchester County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Alamance County, NC, Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Amelia County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:56 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 2114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 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
Jul 23, 12:33 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Caroline, Dorchester, Queen Anne's, Saint Mary's, Somerset, Talbot and 2 more	57 min
Jul 23, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	7 hr
Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allegany, Garrett	62 min
Jul 23, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Caroline, Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot	7 hr
Jul 23, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Charles and 8 more	8 hr
Jul 23, 7:28 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Dorchester, Somerset, Wicomico, Worcester	62 min
Jul 23, 10:38 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Franklin and 12 more	67 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Maryland, 2008 Every mesoscale discussion in 2008

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.