Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1600
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Aug 22, 2014, 4:50 PM EDT for 5 states. It was in force for 85 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 22, 2014, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 22, 2014, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 85 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 112 counties
Boyd County, KY, Breathitt County, KY, Elliott County, KY, Floyd County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Johnson County, KY, Knott County, KY, Lawrence County, KY, Leslie County, KY, Letcher County, KY, Magoffin County, KY, Martin County, KY, Perry County, KY, Pike County, KY, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Carter County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Washington County, TN, Bedford County, VA, Bland County, VA, Botetourt County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Bristol, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Norton, VA, City of Radford, VA, City of Roanoke, VA, City of Salem, VA, Craig County, VA, Dickenson County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Lee County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Roanoke County, VA, Russell County, VA, Scott County, VA, Smyth County, VA, Tazewell County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA, Wythe County, VA, Boone County, WV, Cabell County, WV, Fayette County, WV, Greenbrier County, WV, Kanawha County, WV, Lincoln County, WV, Logan County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Mercer County, WV, Mingo County, WV, Monroe County, WV, Putnam County, WV, Raleigh County, WV, Summers County, WV, Wayne County, WV, Wyoming County, WV
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:53 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 21, 10:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 3 more | 89 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in West Virginia, 2014Every mesoscale discussion in 2014
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.