Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 303, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 2006, 3:31 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 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 5, 2006, 3:31 PM EDT (19:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Granville County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 125 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 353 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 877 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 5, 3:15 PM EDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 3:15 PM EDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 536 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>041-043-060945- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM- WAKE-WILSON- 536 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE STORMS...SOME WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ESPECIALLY LATER THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING HOURS. ADDITIONALLY SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN TIER COUNTIES ALONG THE VIRGINIA BORDER HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SOME LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OVERNIGHT. MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND STORMS ARE EXPECTED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS WHICH WILL FURTHER ENHANCE THE POTENTIAL FOR FLOODING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS DURING THE MORNING HOURS. FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... NCZ042-073>078-083>086-088-089-060945- JOHNSTON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-RICHMOND- SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 536 AM EDT WED JUL 5 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE AREA MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON...BECOMING MORE NUMEROUS LATER TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF A FEW SEVERE STORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ALSO SOME STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ESPECIALLY TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THURSDAY... NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA ESPECIALLY DURING THE MORNING THEN TAPERING OFF IN THE AFTERNOON. THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF A FEW STORMS BECOMING SEVERE WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAINLY AFTER 4 PM. RA
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Local storm report, Jul 5, 10:49 AM EDT, 4 hours 42 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 37 min |
| Jul 4, 8:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance | 35 min |
| Jul 4, 11:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 2:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 24 min |
| Jul 5, 3:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 30 min |
| Jul 5, 4:55 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Franklin and 10 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 5, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 28 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006
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.