Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 448, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2006, 12:45 AM EST for Davidson County, Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 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
- Nov 16, 2006, 12:45 AM EST (05:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 16, 2006, 1:30 AM EST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Davidson County, NC, Randolph County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:46 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 15, 11:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 38 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1176 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 394 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 496 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Nov 16, 12:34 AM EST, 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 16, 12:34 AM EST, 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 15, 5:55 AM EST, 18 hours 50 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 555 AM EST WED NOV 15 2006 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-161030- 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- 555 AM EST WED NOV 15 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A VIGOROUS STORM SYSTEM WILL APPROACH NORTH CAROLINA FROM THE WEST LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT... BRINGING WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND A RISK OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. SURFACE WINDS FROM THE SOUTHEAST AND SOUTH WILL INCREASE TO 10 TO 20 MPH THIS EVENING... WITH HIGHER GUSTS OVER 30 MPH POSSIBLE TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THESE WINDS... IN COMBINATION WITH STRONG SHIFTING WINDS ALOFT BLOWING AT 60 TO 70 MPH... WILL BRING A RISK FOR ROTATING STORMS AND POSSIBLE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR ISOLATED TORNADOES. THE GREATEST CHANCE OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM ALBEMARLE TO RALEIGH TO KERR LAKE... WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE WILL BE MARGINALLY UNSTABLE. THE MOST LIKELY TIME FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN 4 AM LATE TONIGHT AND 3 PM THURSDAY. IN ADDITION TO THE STORM THREAT... A VERY MOIST ATMOSPHERE AND STRONG LIFT WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE FOR LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN. STORM TOTAL RAINFALL OF ONE TO TWO AND HALF INCHES IS EXPECTED... WHICH MAY LEAD TO CONSIDERABLE STREET FLOODING AND RAPID RISES ON CREEKS AND STREAMS... ESPECIALLY THOSE IN URBAN AREAS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE THREAT OF STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS AND HEAVY RAIN WILL EXTEND THROUGH EARLY TO MID AFTERNOON ON THURSDAY. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH THE AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING... USHERING IN DRIER AND COLDER AIR FOR FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE TONIGHT INTO THURSDAY. HARTFIELD
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Nov 15, 7:45 PM EST, 5 hours before
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</html>Special weather statement, Nov 15, 11:14 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1114 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006 NCZ021-022-038-039-073-074-083-084-160630- ANSON-DAVIDSON-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-MONTGOMERY-RANDOLPH-RICHMOND-STANLY- 1114 PM EST WED NOV 15 2006 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS RICHMOND...FORSYTH... GUILFORD...DAVIDSON...RANDOLPH...MONTGOMERY...STANLY AND ANSON COUNTIES THROUGH 130 AM EST... AT 1114 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 12 MILES WEST OF CLEMMONS TO 19 MILES WEST OF PEACHLAND...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF MOCKSVILLE TO MONROE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE GUSTY WINDS COULD RESULT IN A FEW DOWNED TREE LIMBS. LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THESE STORMS INCLUDE ALBEMARLE...LEXINGTON...WINSTON SALEM...THOMASVILLE...AND HIGH POINT. 23
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 12:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Davidson, Stanly | 43 min |
| Nov 16, 12:59 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 1:21 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Guilford | 24 min |
| Nov 16, 1:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 24 min |
| Nov 16, 2:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Randolph | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 4:30 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 30 min |
| Nov 16, 7:34 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 41 min |
| Nov 16, 8:22 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 38 min |
| Nov 16, 8:36 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 24 min |
| Nov 16, 9:20 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Sampson | 40 min |
| Nov 16, 9:39 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 51 min |
| Nov 16, 10:57 AM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wayne | 33 min |
| Nov 16, 11:02 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 13 min |
| Nov 16, 11:14 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 31 min |
| Nov 16, 11:44 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 16 min |
| Nov 16, 12:17 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wayne | 73 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.