Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 330, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2008, 3:19 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 22, 2008, 3:19 PM EDT (19:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2008, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Wayne County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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 nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 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
- 1707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -47 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 10 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 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 Jul 22, 2:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 11:30 AM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1130 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 NCZ007-008-021>023-038-039-230915- PERSON-GRANVILLE-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH- 1130 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX VALUES WILL REACH AS HIGH AS 100 TO 103 DEGREES. PEOPLE VENTURING OUTDOORS ARE URGED TO DRINK PLENTY OF FLUIDS...WEAR LIGHT COLORED AND LOOSE FITTING CLOTHING...AND TO TAKE FREQUENT BREAKS IN AIR CONDITIONED ROOMS TO HELP PREVENT HEAT ILLNESSES. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL. OTHERWISE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH ANY STORMS THAT MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. NCZ009>011-024>028-040>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-230915- VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-CHATHAM- WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 1130 AM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 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. HEAT ADVISORY. IN ADDITION TO THE HEAT...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON IN ASSOCIATION WITH A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHING THE AREA. ANY STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH...IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL. OTHERWISE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH ANY STORMS THAT MAY DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. VINCENT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 22, 3:16 PM EDT, 3 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 316 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 NCZ042-043-078-222000- JOHNSTON-WAYNE-WILSON- 316 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS WILSON...JOHNSTON AND WAYNE COUNTIES THROUGH 400 PM EDT... AT 316 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NAHUNTA TO 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF WALNUT CREEK...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES NORTH OF GOLDSBORO TO 7 MILES NORTH OF LA GRANGE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 3 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR KENLY AROUND 325 PM EDT... FREMONT AROUND 355 PM EDT...EUREKA AROUND 400 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING. SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM THE WINDOWS. DO NOT USE THE TELEPHONE UNLESS IT IS AN EMERGENCY. IF YOU CANNOT SEEK SHELTER INDOORS AUTOMOBILES CAN PROVIDE GOOD SHELTER. WSS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 11:15 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 18 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 18 min |
| Jul 22, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 4:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Chatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Stanly | 101 min |
| Jul 22, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash, Wake | 43 min |
| Jul 22, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 50 min |
| Jul 22, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wayne, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 47 min |
| Jul 22, 5:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Moore | 74 min |
| Jul 22, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson | 44 min |
| Jul 22, 5:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wayne | 108 min |
| Jul 22, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee, Moore | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Johnston, Nash | 58 min |
| Jul 22, 5:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Person | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange, Person | 27 min |
| Jul 22, 5:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 21 min |
| Jul 22, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Stanly | 36 min |
| Jul 22, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 46 min |
| Jul 22, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 43 min |
| Jul 22, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 57 min |
| Jul 22, 6:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person | 33 min |
| Jul 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland | 3 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 25 min |
| Jul 22, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke | 45 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.