Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2010
Mesoscale Discussion 65
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 25, 2010, 3:25 AM EST for 39 counties in North Carolina; Charleston County, Georgetown County, Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 110 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2010, 3:25 AM EST (08:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 25, 2010, 5:15 AM EST
- In force
- 110 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 42 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, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash 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, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Charleston County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 13 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:29 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 00:00Z, 8.4 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
- 319 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 602 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 385 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 440 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.6
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 8:55 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Davidson, Harnett, Hoke and 9 more | 95 min |
| Jan 24, 11:33 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Caswell and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 24, 11:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Bladen, Chatham, Columbus, Cumberland and 16 more | 2 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2010Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2010Every mesoscale discussion in 2010
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.