Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 1896
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Oct 14, 2014, 9:24 PM EDT for 21 counties in North Carolina; 6 counties in South Carolina; 11 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 66 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 2014, 9:24 PM EDT (01:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 2014, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 66 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 38 counties
Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Burke County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Davie County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Bland County, VA, Carroll County, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Radford, VA, Floyd County, VA, Giles County, VA, Grayson County, VA, Montgomery County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pulaski County, VA, Wythe County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 442 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 805 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 215 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 15, 12:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Carteret, Craven, Martin, Pamlico and 1 more | 57 min |
| Oct 15, 5:14 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Hertford, Johnston and 5 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 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.