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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 349, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2008, 1:01 PM EDT for Moore County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 23, 2008, 1:01 PM EDT (17:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2008, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 23, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 106 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1090 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 23, 11:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 11:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1253 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 NCZ007>011-023>028-040>043-075>078-084>086-088-089-240930- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DURHAM- FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-CHATHAM-WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-MOORE-LEE- HARNETT-WAYNE-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 1253 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 736 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 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...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. NCZ021-022-038-039-073-074-083-240930- FORSYTH-GUILFORD-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-ANSON- 1253 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE WELL INTO THE NIGHT. A FEW OF THE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING...PRODUCING ISOLATED WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH...AND HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. ALL THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY LED TO LOCALIZED FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. FINALLY...THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE CONTINUOUS TO EXCESSIVE LIGHTNING STRIKES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 10:28 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Hoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 54 min |
| Jul 23, 2:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson | 41 min |
| Jul 23, 3:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 42 min |
| Jul 23, 3:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Wake | 38 min |
| Jul 23, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 58 min |
| Jul 23, 5:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Vance, Warren | 89 min |
| Jul 23, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Sampson | 95 min |
| Jul 23, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 46 min |
| Jul 23, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 40 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.