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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 12, 2001Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2001, 4:09 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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: May 12, 2001, 4:09 PM EDT (20:09 UTC)
Expired: May 12, 2001, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Wake County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 12, 4:25 PM EDT	Hail 1	Knightdale, 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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 23 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -119 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1362 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS52 KRAH 122011
SVRRAH

NCC183-122045-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
409 PM EDT SAT MAY 12 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT

* AT 409 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR CARY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RALEIGH AT 410 PM EDT
  GARNER AT 415 PM EDT
  WENDELL AT 430 PM EDT  

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY
LIGIHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

RA/WSS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 12, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Wake	33 min
May 12, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	25 min
May 12, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Nash	35 min
May 12, 4:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	28 min
May 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	31 min
May 12, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	33 min
May 12, 5:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	24 min
May 12, 5:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	19 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.