Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 206, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2008, 2:47 PM EDT for Anson County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 43 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
- Jun 20, 2008, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2008, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Anson County, NC, Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 150 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1931 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 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 Jun 20, 2:10 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 2:10 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 20, 2:35 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008 NCZ007>011-021>027-038>041-211000- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE SMALL HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING STRIKES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SATURDAY MORNING AND EXPAND OVER ALL OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL... ESPECIALLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION... AREAS OF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 1. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. NCZ028-042-043-073>078-083>086-088-089-211000- EDGECOMBE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE- ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 20 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 585 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SATURDAY MORNING AND EXPAND OVER ALL OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY EVENING. A FEW OF THESE STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL... ESPECIALLY SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION... AREAS OF TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ARE POSSIBLE. ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE STORMS WILL BE MOST NUMEROUS ALONG AND EAST OF HIGHWAY 1. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 4:23 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Chatham, Wake | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 3:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Richmond, Scotland | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 50 min |
| Jun 20, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 26 min |
| Jun 20, 4:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 91 min |
| Jun 20, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 24 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.