Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 291, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 8, 2008, 1:24 PM EDT for Harnett County, Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- Jul 8, 2008, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Harnett County, NC, Johnston County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:27 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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
- 2216 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 755 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.7
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 Jul 8, 1:15 PM EDT, 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:15 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 1:11 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 111 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 NCZ007>011-025>028-041>043-078-089-091715- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE- WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-WAYNE-SAMPSON- 111 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 668 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. NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING LARGE HAIL IN EXCESS OF ONE INCH IN DIAMETER... AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... WILL ALSO BE THREATS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 10 PM TONIGHT. PEOPLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST CONDITIONS AND FORECASTS THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LATE DAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS A WARM MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED FROM MID AFTERNOON THROUGH MID EVENING. SPOTTERS SHOULD STAY TUNED AND REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH. NCZ021>024-038>040-073>077-083>086-088-091715- FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-STANLY- MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND- 111 PM EDT TUE JUL 8 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVER THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. AN ISOLATED STORM OR TWO MAY BECOME SEVERE... PRODUCING LARGE HAIL NEAR ONE INCH IN DIAMETER... AND DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH. VERY FREQUENT LIGHTNING... AS WELL AS LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... WILL ALSO BE THREATS WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. THE GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE STORMS WILL BE BETWEEN 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 8 PM TONIGHT. PEOPLE ACROSS CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST CONDITIONS AND FORECASTS THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LATE DAY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS A WARM MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SOME OF THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS...WITH THE MAIN THREAT BEING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD STAY TUNED AND REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH. GIH
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 8, 1:10 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
110 PM EDT TUE JUL 08 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0100 PM HAIL 2 WSW ROXBORO 36.39N 79.00W
07/08/2008 E1.75 INCH PERSON NC LAW ENFORCEMENT
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LPAGANOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 10:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Randolph | 57 min |
| Jul 7, 10:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 43 min |
| Jul 7, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 24 min |
| Jul 8, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 1:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 41 min |
| Jul 8, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 38 min |
| Jul 8, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 36 min |
| Jul 8, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 5:22 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 113 min |
| Jul 8, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 5:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 6:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Anson | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Richmond | 61 min |
| Jul 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 6:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson | 44 min |
| Jul 8, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Orange | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Scotland | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 23 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.