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Mesoscale Discussion 2096
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Sep 2, 2011, 2:31 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2011, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2011, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 75 counties
Rabun County, GA, Towns County, GA, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Graham County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Polk County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Greenville County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Carter County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Alleghany County, VA, Bath County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Covington, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Henry County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Clay County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Nicholas County, WV, Pocahontas County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Webster County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 167 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
- 377 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -136 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1087 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 182 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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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.