Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 407, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2006, 5:39 PM EDT for Anson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 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
- Aug 8, 2006, 5:39 PM EDT (21:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2006, 6:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Anson County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 775 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 793 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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 Aug 8, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 426 AM EDT TUE AUG 8 2006 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-090830- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM- WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE- ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 426 AM EDT TUE AUG 8 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS AHEAD A COLD FRONT APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH. THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS WITH DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER THE EASTERN PIEDMONT...SANDHILLS AND COASTAL PLAIN AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS MOST LIKELY ALONG AND EAST OF A LINE FROM HENDERSON...RALEIGH...SOUTHERN PINES TO LAURINBURG LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. HOWEVER SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ESPECIALLY LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING. RA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 3:04 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 304 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2006 NCZ021-022-038-082000- DAVIDSON-FORSYTH-GUILFORD- 304 PM EDT TUE AUG 8 2006 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS FORSYTH... GUILFORD AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 304 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTH OF BELEWS CREEK TO 30 MILES WEST OF DONNAHA...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM MADISON TO RONDA...MOVING SOUTH AT 15 MPH. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE GUSTY WINDS COULD RESULT IN A FEW DOWNED TREE LIMBS. DONT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE FIRST LIGHTNING FLASH BEFORE HEADING TO SAFETY. INSTEAD...MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES OR THE FIRST SOUND OF THUNDER. MAKE SURE THAT LIGHTNING IS WELL AWAY FROM YOUR LOCATION BEFORE RESUMING OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. WSS
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 4:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 29 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.