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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 425, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 30, 2006Edgecombe County, Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 2006, 10:28 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Nash 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 30, 2006, 10:28 PM EDT (02:28 UTC)
Expired: Aug 30, 2006, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:31 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, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 387 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 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 Aug 30, 9:37 PM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 30, 9:37 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 30, 5:51 AM EDT, 16 hours 37 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
551 AM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-311000-
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-
551 AM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY
SEE LATEST ADVISORIES FROM THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER REGARDING
TROPICAL STORM ERNESTO...WHICH IS EXPECTED TO CROSS CENTRAL NORTH
CAROLINA THURSDAY NIGHT AND EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. THE THREAT OF
HEAVY RAIN AND FLASH FLOODING WILL INCREASE WITH THE APPROACH AND
PASSAGE OF ERNESTO. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE ALSO POSSIBLE MAINLY IN
THE EASTERN HALF THURSDAY EVENING AND THURSDAY NIGHT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.

RFG

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 30, 7:57 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
757 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0612 PM     TSTM WND DMG     8 WSW TROY              35.32N 80.02W
08/30/2006                   MONTGOMERY         NC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE REPORTED DOWN NEAR WOODRUN AT CRESSWELL DR.

&&

BSD

Local storm report, Aug 30, 8:13 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
813 PM EDT WED AUG 30 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0657 PM     TSTM WND DMG     6 N TROY                35.45N 79.89W
08/30/2006                   MONTGOMERY         NC   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREE REPORTED DOWN NEAR ANT QUEEN RD. IN NORTHERN
            MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

&&

BSD

Local storm report, Aug 30, 8:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 8:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 30, 9:43 PM EDT, 45 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 30, 10:01 PM EDT, 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 30, 8:35 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	55 min
Aug 31, 11:18 AM EDT	Wind Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Harnett, Johnston, Nash and 3 more	22 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2006 Every 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.