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Mesoscale Discussion 1336
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 1, 2012, 2:53 PM EDT for 43 counties in North Carolina; 21 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 97 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2012, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 97 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties
Beaufort County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Camden County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Dare County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Pender County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 137 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
- 2962 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -200 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 85 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 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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ACUS11 KWNS 011854
SWOMCD
SPC MCD 011853
NCZ000-VAZ000-012030-
MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 1336
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
0153 PM CDT SUN JUL 01 2012
AREAS AFFECTED...SERN VA...CNTRL/ERN NC
CONCERNING...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 442...
VALID 011853Z - 012030Z
THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 442
CONTINUES.
SUMMARY...PORTIONS OF WW 442 MAY NEED TO BE EXTENDED N/EWD IN SERN
VA. COVERAGE/INTENSITY OF THE SEVERE THREAT IN NC SHOULD INCREASE
DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO.
DISCUSSION...PERSISTENT SMALL TSTM CLUSTER NOW APPROACHING THE
RDU/I-85 CORRIDOR IN N-CNTRL NC/S-CNTRL VA SHOULD CONTINUE ON A
GENERAL E/SEWD PROGRESSION...WHILE CONVECTION HAS BECOME SCATTERED
FARTHER S IN THE PIEDMONT TO COASTAL PLAIN. WITH ACTIVITY
APPROACHING/DEVELOPING WITHIN THE AXIS OF EXTREME INSTABILITY AMIDST
MID-LEVEL LAPSE RATES AROUND 8.5 TO 9 C/KM IN THE 18Z MHX/CHS
RAOBS...UPSCALE GROWTH IS LIKELY IMMINENT. THIS SHOULD YIELD
INCREASING COVERAGE/INTENSITY OF SEVERE WIND WITH EMBEDDED SEVERE
HAIL CORES.
..GRAMS.. 07/01/2012
...PLEASE SEE WWW.SPC.NOAA.GOV FOR GRAPHIC PRODUCT...
ATTN...WFO...AKQ...MHX...RAH...ILM...RNK...
LAT...LON 37097819 37347737 37187657 36867605 35847555 35157555
34547671 34357769 34507873 34827939 35357944 36287884
37097819SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Forsyth, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 63 min |
| Jul 1, 9:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Caldwell and 12 more | 97 min |
| Jul 1, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Anson, Buncombe, Burke, Cabarrus, Catawba and 24 more | 96 min |
| Jul 1, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Catawba, Cleveland, Columbus and 12 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 1, 4:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus, Duplin, New Hanover, Pender and 3 more | 90 min |
| Jul 1, 7:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Caswell and 40 more | 56 min |
| Jul 1, 7:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus, Cleveland, Columbus and 14 more | 96 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2012Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2012Every mesoscale discussion in 2012
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.