Alert archive / North Carolina / Mesoscale Discussions in 2016
Mesoscale Discussion 148
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Feb 24, 2016, 2:55 PM EST for 34 counties in North Carolina; 12 counties in South Carolina; Mecklenburg County, City of Danville, Virginia. It was in force for 95 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2016, 2:55 PM EST (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2016, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 95 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 48 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Columbus County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Duplin County, NC, Durham County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Greene County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Lenoir County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pender County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph 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, Calhoun County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Clarendon County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Florence County, SC, Horry County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marion County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Sumter County, SC, City of Danville, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:55 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 156 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -286 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 406 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 703 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 750 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 24, 8:14 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Avery, Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:46 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Burke, Cabarrus, Caldwell and 36 more | 119 min |
| Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 28 more | 89 min |
| Feb 24, 11:16 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Cabarrus and 52 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 1:18 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Caswell, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford and 9 more | 117 min |
| Feb 24, 1:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Currituck and 10 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 24, 4:46 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Chatham, Chowan and 35 more | 89 min |
| Feb 24, 6:40 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Camden, Carteret, Chowan and 32 more | 2 hr |
| Feb 24, 6:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden, Carteret and 36 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:58 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allendale | 6 hr |
| Feb 24, 6:48 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allendale, Beaufort, Colleton, Hampton, Jasper | 87 min |
| Feb 24, 3:06 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Arlington, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun and 10 more | 54 min |
| Feb 24, 3:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arlington, Culpeper, Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun and 10 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in South Carolina, 2016Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 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.