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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 5, 20089 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this high wind watch at Sep 5, 2008, 4:18 AM EDT for 9 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Sep 5, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 5, 2008, 4:18 AM EDT (08:18 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 5, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
Sep 5, 2008, 3:40 PM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Nash County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Sep 5, 3:40 AM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 5, 3:40 AM EDT, 38 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 5, 3:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WatchRAHAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more21 hr
Sep 5, 3:40 PM EDTHigh Wind WarningRAHCumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke and 8 more20 hr
Sep 5, 3:40 PM EDTWind AdvisoryRAHAnson, Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville and 11 more24 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in North Carolina, 2008Every high wind watch in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.