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Mesoscale Discussion 1015

June 2, 202226 counties in North Carolina; 36 counties in Virginia

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jun 2, 2022, 3:35 PM EDT for 26 counties in North Carolina; 36 counties in Virginia. It was in force for 85 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 2, 2022, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 85 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Severe thunderstorm watch 303

All 62 counties

Alamance County, NC, Bertie County, NC, Camden County, NC, Caswell County, NC, Chowan County, NC, Currituck County, NC, Davie County, NC, Durham County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Gates County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Hertford County, NC, Northampton County, NC, Orange County, NC, Pasquotank County, NC, Perquimans County, NC, Person County, NC, Rockingham County, NC, Stokes County, NC, Surry County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC, Yadkin County, NC, Brunswick County, VA, Charles City County, VA, Charlotte County, VA, City of Chesapeake, VA, City of Colonial Heights, VA, City of Danville, VA, City of Emporia, VA, City of Franklin, VA, City of Hampton, VA, City of Hopewell, VA, City of Martinsville, VA, City of Newport News, VA, City of Norfolk, VA, City of Petersburg, VA, City of Poquoson, VA, City of Portsmouth, VA, City of Suffolk, VA, City of Virginia Beach, VA, City of Williamsburg, VA, Dinwiddie County, VA, Franklin County, VA, Greensville County, VA, Halifax County, VA, Henry County, VA, Isle of Wight County, VA, Lunenburg County, VA, Mecklenburg County, VA, Nottoway County, VA, Patrick County, VA, Pittsylvania County, VA, Prince Edward County, VA, Prince George County, VA, Southampton County, VA, Surry County, VA, Sussex County, VA, York County, VA

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1298 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Alleghany, Ashe, Caswell, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and 3 more	7 hr
Jun 2, 1:04 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Albemarle, Alleghany, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta and 60 more	116 min
Jun 2, 4:43 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Accomack, Albemarle, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington and 59 more	92 min

Nearby

Mesoscale Discussions in Virginia, 2022 Mesoscale Discussions in North Carolina, 2022 Every mesoscale discussion in 2022

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.