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Mesoscale Discussion 837

June 23, 20184 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 23, 2018, 1:38 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2018, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2018, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Chance of a watch: 60%

All 68 counties

Sussex County, DE, Dorchester County, MD, Saint Mary's County, MD, Somerset County, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Worcester County, MD, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Martin County, NC, Nash County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Pitt County, NC, Tyrrell County, NC, Warren County, NC, Washington County, NC, Wilson County, NC, Accomack County, VA, Brunswick County, VA, Caroline County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Chesterfield County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Richmond, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Essex County, VA, Gloucester County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Henrico County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, James City County, VA, King and Queen County, VA, King William County, VA, Lancaster County, VA, Mathews County, VA, Middlesex County, VA, New Kent County, VA, Northampton County, VA, Northumberland County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Richmond County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, Westmoreland County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:42 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.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 205Jun 23, 2:00 PM EDT

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 229 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 2952 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 105 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 4.1

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The text

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 5:40 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Calvert, Charles, Dorchester, Prince George's, Saint Mary's, Somerset and 1 more	2 hr
Jun 23, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bertie, Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Edgecombe, Franklin and 8 more	6 hr

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2018 Mesoscale Discussions in Maryland, 2018 Every mesoscale discussion in 2018

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.