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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 381, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 28, 2006Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2006, 8:08 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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 28, 2006, 8:08 PM EDT (00:08 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2006, 8:33 PM EDT
In force
25 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 128 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:08 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2006-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3365 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 00:00Z on 2006-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
3365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
684 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.8

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland45 min
Jul 28, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett45 min
Jul 28, 8:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne, Wilson25 min
Jul 28, 10:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth39 min
Jul 28, 10:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford52 min
Jul 29, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake41 min
Jul 29, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston47 min
Jul 29, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne, Wilson52 min
Jul 29, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston14 min
Jul 29, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson40 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.