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Mesoscale Discussion 173
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 6, 2014, 8:04 PM EST for 30 counties in North Carolina; 11 counties in South Carolina; 10 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 6, 2014, 8:04 PM EST (01:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 7, 2014, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 51 counties
Alamance County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Amelia County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Danville, VA, Halifax County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:03 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 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 410 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 12:37 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Cabarrus, Caswell, Chatham, Davidson, Durham and 12 more | 4 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in 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.