Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 2095
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 15, 2008, 12:50 PM EDT for 44 counties in North Carolina; 7 counties in South Carolina; 44 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 15, 2008, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2008, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 95 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Amelia County, VA, Amherst County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Bedford County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Buckingham County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Charlottesville, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Lynchburg, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Richmond, VA, Cumberland County, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Fluvanna County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Goochland County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Henry County, VA, King William County, VA, Louisa County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nelson County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Powhatan County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 28 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
- 1143 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 15, 1:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba, Chatham and 33 more | 94 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2008Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.