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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 377, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 2008, 3:02 PM EDT for Vance 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
- Jul 31, 2008, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2008, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Vance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:04 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 31, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 1212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -90 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 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 31, 2:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:45 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 156 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-010930- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 156 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 783 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...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD TOWARD THE CAROLINAS FROM THE WEST AND STRENGTHEN EARLY NEXT WEEK. HIGH TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REACH INTO THE MID TO UPPER 90S DURING THIS TIME FRAME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL LIKELY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THIS EVENING. SPOTTERS SHOULD REPORT SEVERE WEATHER AS SOON AS IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 1:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 132 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 NCZ007-311830- PERSON- 132 PM EDT THU JUL 31 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO PERSON COUNTY AROUND 230 PM EDT... AT 132 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS NEAR DANVILLE AND STONEVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PERSON COUNTY REACHING MAYO LAKE AND CONCORD AROUND 230 PM AND THEN ROXBORO AROUND 245 PM. GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE WINDS ARE CAPABLE OF BRINGING DOWN LARGE TREE LIMBS. LIGHT OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND AWNINGS COULD BE TOSSED AROUND. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ALSO PRODUCING AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF LIGHTNING. WHEN THUNDER IS ROARS...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. JO
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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 31, 1:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 2:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Warren | 40 min |
| Jul 31, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee | 46 min |
| Jul 31, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 30 min |
| Jul 31, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 49 min |
| Jul 31, 4:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 29 min |
| Jul 31, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 41 min |
| Jul 31, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee, Moore | 38 min |
| Jul 31, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Anson, Richmond, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Jul 31, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 36 min |
| Jul 31, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 50 min |
| Jul 31, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 44 min |
| Jul 31, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson | 43 min |
| Jul 31, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 52 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.