Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2049
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 7, 2008, 6:53 PM EDT for Burke County, Richmond County, Georgia; 24 counties in North Carolina; 24 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 2008, 6:53 PM EDT (22:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 50 counties
Burke County, GA, Richmond County, GA, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Union County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Allendale County, SC, Bamberg County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Berkeley County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Charleston County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Dorchester County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:55 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 180 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
- 1395 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1404 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 10:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga, Cherokee and 23 more | 97 min |
| Aug 7, 11:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattooga and 48 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond | 8 hr |
| Aug 7, 3:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Baker, Baldwin, Barrow and 112 more | 91 min |
| Aug 7, 1:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 23 more | 92 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 2008Every 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.