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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 8, 2005Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 8, 2005, 10:13 AM EST for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Mar 8, 2005, 10:13 AM EST (15:13 UTC)
Expired: Mar 8, 2005, 10:45 AM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Mar 8, 8:35 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 556 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 318 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 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 081513
SVRRAH
NCC195-081545-
/O.NEW.KRAH.SV.W.0013.050308T1513Z-050308T1545Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1013 AM EST TUE MAR 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WILSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA

* UNTIL 1045 AM EST

* AT 1006 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BUCKHORN RESERVOIR...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
  WEST OF WILSON. MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PENNY SIZED HAIL AND WINDS
  IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  WILSON...
  BLACK CREEK...
  STANTONSBURG...DRIVERS STORE...
  SARATOGA...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 58 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER. MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND STAY AWAY
FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 3575 7817 3560 7814 3558 7784 3568 7770
      3584 7780

$$

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 8, 8:52 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Orange	23 min
Mar 8, 8:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee, Moore	100 min
Mar 8, 9:00 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	98 min
Mar 8, 9:23 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	37 min
Mar 8, 9:26 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	49 min
Mar 8, 9:27 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	33 min
Mar 8, 9:44 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson	49 min
Mar 8, 9:59 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	31 min
Mar 8, 10:04 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	26 min
Mar 8, 10:08 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	52 min
Mar 8, 10:25 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	35 min
Mar 8, 10:27 AM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.