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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 136, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 10, 2003Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2003, 8:56 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 10, 2003, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
Expired
Jul 10, 2003, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 189 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-07-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1414 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 2003-07-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 41 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1414 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-29 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1147 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
82 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Jul 10, 2:15 PM EDT, 6 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 2:15 PM EDT, 6 hours 41 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
215 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

WILL BE INCREASING POPS ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER TO LIKELY PER
EXTRAPOLATION OF THE IMPENDING BOW AND ISSUING ZONES AROUND 300 PM.
THERE IS NO REASON FOR THE BOW TO WEAKEN.

APPROACHING VORT AXIS IS STRETCHED AND WEAKENED AS IT STRUGGLES INTO
THE WEST LATER TONIGHT. THUS THE CURENT HIGH CHANCE POPS IN PLACE
THROUGH THE EVENING LOOK GOOD...TAPERING TO SLIGHT CHANCES LATER
TONIGHT. SOME DRYING TOMORROW IN THE UPPER LEVELS...BUT WILL NEED TO
CONTINUE A CHANCE POP INTO THE EVENING ONCE AGAIN AS MAXES
APPROACHING 90 AND LOW LEVEL MOISTURE PRODUCE CAPES UPWARDS OF 2000
JOULES.

LOW LEVELS DRY TOMORROW NIGHT AFTER FROPA AND WESTERLY FLOW DEEPENS
AS THE LONG WAVE TROF SETTLES INTO THE EAST COAST THIS WEEKEND.
SATURDAY LOOKS TO BE DRY AND SEASONABLE. THE EXTENDED HAS NO REAL
HANDLE AS TO THE TIMING OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY DIGGING INTO THE TROF.
MOISTURE WILL BE INCREASING...HOWEVER...AND CLIMATOLOGICAL
SUMMERTIME DIURNAL CONVECTION CONTINUES TO BE THE BEST COURSE OF
ACTION WITH PERSISTENCE HIGHS IN THE UPPER 80S.

.RAH...NONE.

MLM/RLH
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 5:33 AM EDT, 15 hours 23 minutes before
NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-111000-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
533 AM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING
RAISING THE POTENTIAL FOR FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

OUTSIDE OF LATE DAY THUNDERSTORMS...NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED
DURING THIS PERIOD.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

ACTIVATION OF THE SPOTTER NETWORK SHOULD NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR
TONIGHT.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 10, 6:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
604 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

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

0535 PM    7 E RALEIGH               NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03   WAKE                           6 TREES DOWN NEAR NEW HOPE
                                          CHURCH ROAD AND HEADINGHAM
                                          BLVD. SPOTTER REPORT.

0545 PM    12 S RALEIGH              NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03   WAKE                           TREE DOWN ON CHRISTIAN
                                          LIGHT ROAD.
Local storm report, Jul 10, 6:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
619 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

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

0540 PM    LILLINGTON                NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03   HARNETT                        TREES DOWN OVER WESTERN
                                          PART OF COUNTY. RELAYED
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT.

0600 PM    7 NW LILLINGTON           NC   WIND DAMAGE
07/10/03   HARNETT                        TREES DOWN BETWEEN HARNETT
                                          CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL AND THE
                                          WAKE COUNTY LINE. RELAYED
                                          FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT.

WSS
Local storm report, Jul 10, 6:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC
632 PM EDT THU JUL 10 2003

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

0540 PM    5W FUQUAY VARINA          NC   1.75 INCH HAIL
07/10/03   WAKE
Local storm report, Jul 10, 7:22 PM EDT, 1 hour 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 11, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHStanly20 min
Jul 11, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson26 min
Jul 11, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMontgomery32 min
Jul 11, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Harnett28 min
Jul 11, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston52 min
Jul 11, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore59 min
Jul 11, 7:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe23 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.