Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2008
Mesoscale Discussion 265
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 18, 2008, 2:04 AM EST for 28 counties in North Carolina; 8 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 18, 2008, 2:04 AM EST (07:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2008, 2:30 AM EST
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 36 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 164 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 18, 2:30 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven and 26 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:45 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford, Northampton and 2 more | 30 min |
| Feb 18, 3:59 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 6:18 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 12 more | 57 min |
| Feb 17, 8:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Barnwell, Edgefield, McCormick, Saluda | 56 min |
| Feb 17, 11:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Clarendon and 7 more | 85 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 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.