Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2014
Mesoscale Discussion 22
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 11, 2014, 2:04 PM EST for Richmond County, Georgia; 40 counties in North Carolina; 19 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 11, 2014, 2:04 PM EST (19:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 11, 2014, 3:00 PM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 60 counties
Richmond County, GA, Beaufort County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Hyde County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Martin County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pamlico County, NC, Pender County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Aiken County, SC, Barnwell County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Georgetown County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Orangeburg County, SC, Richland County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:06 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 watches that followed
Watches SPC issued over any of the same counties within four hours of this discussion.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -173 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 361 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 406 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 8:03 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Calhoun and 53 more | 27 min |
| Jan 11, 8:07 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baldwin, Barrow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Chattahoochee and 63 more | 7 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:22 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Hart | 23 min |
| Jan 11, 9:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Elbert, Lincoln, McDuffie | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:04 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 11:50 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Burke, Richmond | 6 hr |
| Jan 11, 12:17 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Appling, Bacon, Baldwin, Ben Hill, Bleckley, Bryan and 32 more | 58 min |
| Jan 11, 1:51 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Brantley, Bryan, Bulloch and 20 more | 3 hr |
| Jan 11, 1:53 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baker, Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Calhoun, Clay and 23 more | 97 min |
| Jan 11, 3:35 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brantley, Bryan, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham and 8 more | 55 min |
| Jan 11, 11:12 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Caswell, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham and 22 more | 63 min |
| Jan 11, 2:13 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Dare and 13 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Gates, Hertford and 3 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 11, 4:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Gates and 6 more | 61 min |
| Jan 11, 4:37 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Carteret, Columbus, Craven, Hyde and 5 more | 53 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2014Mesoscale Discussions in Georgia, 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.