Alert archive / South Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 1045
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 24, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT for 17 counties in North Carolina; 26 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 24, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT (19:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 43 counties
Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Carteret County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Craven County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Jones County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Abbeville County, SC, Aiken County, SC, Calhoun County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Edgefield County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenwood County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Lexington County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, McCormick County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Richland County, SC, Saluda County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 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
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -119 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1589 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 23, 8:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alleghany, Ashe, Bertie, Caswell, Chatham and 38 more | 115 min |
| Jun 23, 10:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Watauga, Yancey | 84 min |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2016Every mesoscale discussion in 2016
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.