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Mesoscale Discussion 1142
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 5, 2016, 2:10 PM EDT for 50 counties in North Carolina; 4 counties in South Carolina; 25 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 2016, 2:10 PM EDT (18:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2016, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 79 counties
Alamance County, NC, Alexander County, NC, Alleghany County, NC, Anson County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Caldwell 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, Franklin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Union County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, York County, SC, Amelia County, VA, Appomattox County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Campbell County, VA, Carroll County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Galax, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Floyd County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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, 6.2 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
- 427 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -108 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1117 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Alamance, Anson, Cabarrus, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson and 28 more | 4 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:29 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Brunswick, Columbus, Craven, Duplin, Jones and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Carteret, Craven, Dare, Duplin, Greene and 9 more | 3 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Abbeville, Aiken, Anderson, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens and 4 more | 3 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South 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.