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Mesoscale Discussion 897

May 11, 200826 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina; 6 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at May 11, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT for 26 counties in North Carolina; Horry County, South Carolina; 6 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 90 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 11, 2008, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2008, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center

All 33 counties

Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Greene County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Washington County, NC, Horry County, SC, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA

The radar

The Morehead City radar (KMHX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 310May 11, 7:45 PM EDT

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 54 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 67 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
May 11, 9:34 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Graham, Haywood, Madison and 4 more	26 min
May 11, 9:52 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 8 more	6 hr
May 11, 1:39 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 49 more	2 hr
May 11, 2:07 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Cabarrus, Caswell and 43 more	6 hr
May 11, 2:33 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Ashe, Watauga	57 min
May 11, 4:18 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Chatham, Chowan, Cumberland and 26 more	87 min
May 11, 4:43 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 23 more	6 hr
May 11, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 20 more	3 hr
May 10, 8:14 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 6 more	2 hr
May 10, 9:54 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton and 1 more	96 min
May 10, 10:06 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper	7 hr
May 11, 2:06 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Edgefield, Hampton and 2 more	84 min
May 11, 2:37 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 12 more	7 hr
May 11, 4:40 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Abbeville, Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort and 14 more	95 min
May 11, 7:24 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley and 13 more	96 min
May 11, 8:51 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun and 5 more	84 min
May 11, 2:42 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper	5 hr
May 11, 7:06 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Jasper	84 min
May 11, 11:10 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Buchanan, Dickenson, Russell, Scott, Smyth, Tazewell and 4 more	95 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2008 Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.