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Mesoscale Discussion 36

January 9, 20245 counties in North Carolina

The Storm Prediction Center issued this mesoscale discussion at Jan 9, 2024, 3:26 PM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 94 min.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 9, 2024, 3:26 PM EST (20:26 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2024, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 94 min
Issued by: the Storm Prediction Center
Concerning: Tornado watch 5...6...7

Counties Bladen County, NC, Brunswick County, NC, Columbus County, NC, New Hanover County, NC, Pender County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 158 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: 4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 727 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 464 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 799 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
Jan 9, 11:41 AM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Anson, Cabarrus, Davidson, Forsyth, Gaston, Mecklenburg and 6 more	6 hr
Jan 9, 12:56 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Scotland and 2 more	94 min
Jan 9, 1:32 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Bladen, Brunswick, Caswell, Chatham, Columbus and 41 more	58 min
Jan 9, 1:46 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	Alamance, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 52 more	9 hr
Jan 9, 4:02 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Alamance, Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick and 52 more	88 min

Nearby

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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.