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Mesoscale Discussion 1246
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jul 11, 2016, 1:46 PM EDT for 42 counties in North Carolina; 23 counties in South Carolina. It was in force for 89 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 11, 2016, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 11, 2016, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 89 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 20%
All 65 counties
Alexander County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Buncombe County, NC, Burke County, NC, Cabarrus County, NC, Catawba County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Gaston County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Henderson County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Iredell County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Jones County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Lincoln County, NC, McDowell County, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Onslow County, NC, Pender County, NC, Polk County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Robeson County, NC, Rowan County, NC, Rutherford County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Transylvania County, NC, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Florence County, SC, Greenville County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Laurens County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Pickens County, SC, Richland County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Sumter County, SC, Union County, SC, Williamsburg County, SC, York County, SC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1158 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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.