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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 13, 2000Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2000, 2:49 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2000, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2000, 3:20 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 13, 2:53 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Shotwell, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: -86 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 76 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 131850
SVRRDU
NCC183-131920-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
249 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN WAKE COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 320 PM EDT

* AT 249 PM EDT...7 MILES NORTH OF FUQUAY-VARINA...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTH OF CARY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL LIKELY AFFECT...
   GARNER...FUQUAY-VARINA...AND HOLLY SPRINGS AREAS

HAIL UP TO AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. 
IF YOU ARE IN THE STORMS PATH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LAT...LON 3577 7874 3570 7s895 3559 7898 3553 7870
          3582 7828
RFG

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 10:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 10:40 AM EDT, 4 hours 9 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1040 AM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000

WILL GO WITH A HIGHER POP THAN CURRENTLY ADVERTISED FOR THIS
AFTERNOON ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA AS UPPER LOW TRACKS SLOWLY E-SE
ACROSS REGION. UPPER AIR ANALYSIS DEPICTS SOME LOW AND MID LEVEL
CONVERGENCE ALONG VA/NC BORDER. WITH COOL POOL ALOFT AND AFTERNOON
HEATING...EXPECT MOST OF THE CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY TO OCCUR OVER
EASTERN COUNTIES OF CWA. NOTICED VIA DPROG/DT FOR 00Z/MON...THAT
AVN/NGM HAVE TRENDED TOWARD ETA SOLUTION. THUS...SYSTEM MAY BE SLOW
TO MOVE OUT TONIGHT.

AS FAR AS SOUTHERN COUNTIES....HEATING AND CLOSE PROXIMITY OF LOW
WARRANTS A SMALL CHC IN THE SANDHILLS AND SLIGHT CHANCE IN SOUTHERN
PIEDMONT.

MAY OPEN THE RANGE IN TEMPS CONSIDERING VARYING SKY CONDITION
EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON. MAY GO WITH 75-80 OVER THE NORTH HALF WHILE
AROUND 80/LOWER 80S SHOULD SUFFICE IN THE SOUTH.

.RAH...NONE.
WSS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

ZCZC RDULSRRDU ALL
TTAA00 KRDU DDHHMM

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
249 PM EDT SUN AUG 13 2000

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0214 PM    YOUNGSVILLE               NC   .88 INCH HAIL
08/13/00   FRANKLIN                       SPOTTER REPORTED NICKEL
                                          SIZE HAIL NEAR YOUNGSVILLE

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 13, 1:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	24 min
Aug 13, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	32 min
Aug 13, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	34 min
Aug 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	33 min
Aug 13, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	33 min
Aug 13, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	32 min
Aug 13, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Moore	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.