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Mesoscale Discussion 213
The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Mar 14, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT for 47 counties in North Carolina; 14 counties in South Carolina; Henry County, Patrick County, Virginia. It was in force for 84 min.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2016, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Chance of a watch
- 40%
All 63 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, Cumberland 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, Harnett County, NC, Hoke 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, Orange County, NC, Person 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, Union County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wilkes County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Cherokee County, SC, Chester County, SC, Chesterfield County, SC, Darlington County, SC, Dillon County, SC, Fairfield County, SC, Kershaw County, SC, Lancaster County, SC, Lee County, SC, Marlboro County, SC, Newberry County, SC, Spartanburg County, SC, Union County, SC, York County, SC, Henry County, VA, Patrick County, VA
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 70 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
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -172 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 577 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 8:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Bertie, Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 14 more | 92 min |
| Mar 14, 12:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke and 19 more | 97 min |
| Mar 14, 6:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Alamance, Alexander, Anson, Cabarrus, Caswell, Catawba and 42 more | 2 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.