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Mesoscale Discussion 1465
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 18, 2015, 2:05 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 115 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 2015, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 2015, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 5%
All 178 counties
Banks County, GA, Dawson County, GA, Fannin County, GA, Franklin County, GA, Gilmer County, GA, Habersham County, GA, Hall County, GA, Hart County, GA, Lumpkin County, GA, Murray County, GA, Rabun County, GA, Stephens County, GA, Towns County, GA, Union County, GA, White County, GA, Allen County, KY, Barren County, KY, Bell County, KY, Clinton County, KY, Cumberland County, KY, Harlan County, KY, Knox County, KY, Laurel County, KY, Leslie County, KY, McCreary County, KY, Metcalfe County, KY, Monroe County, KY, Pulaski County, KY, Russell County, KY, Warren County, KY, Wayne County, KY, Whitley County, KY, Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Ashe County, NC, Avery County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Clay County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Graham County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Haywood County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Jackson County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, Macon County, NC, Madison County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Mitchell County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Swain County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Watauga County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Yancey County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Anderson County, SC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Oconee County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Anderson County, TN, Bledsoe County, TN, Blount County, TN, Bradley County, TN, Campbell County, TN, Carter County, TN, Claiborne County, TN, Clay County, TN, Cocke County, TN, Cumberland County, TN, DeKalb County, TN, Fentress County, TN, Grainger County, TN, Greene County, TN, Hamblen County, TN, Hamilton County, TN, Hancock County, TN, Hawkins County, TN, Jackson County, TN, Jefferson County, TN, Johnson County, TN, Knox County, TN, Loudon County, TN, Macon County, TN, McMinn County, TN, Meigs County, TN, Monroe County, TN, Morgan County, TN, Overton County, TN, Pickett County, TN, Polk County, TN, Putnam County, TN, Rhea County, TN, Roane County, TN, Scott County, TN, Sequatchie County, TN, Sevier County, TN, Smith County, TN, Sullivan County, TN, Trousdale County, TN, Unicoi County, TN, Union County, TN, Van Buren County, TN, Warren County, TN, Washington County, TN, White County, TN, City of Bristol, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Norton, VA, Grayson County, VA, Lee County, VA, Scott County, VA, Washington County, VA, Wise County, VA
The radar
The Greer radar (KGSP), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:04 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 194 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
- 839 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -67 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 990 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 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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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.