Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 432, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2008, 11:40 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 10, 2008, 11:40 PM EDT (03:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2008, 12:32 AM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cumberland County, NC, Sampson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 993 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 983 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.1
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 Aug 10, 10:45 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 10, 10:45 PM EDT, 55 minutes before
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PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1027 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0945 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 NW NASHVILLE 35.98N 77.97W
08/10/2008 NASH NC LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN ON VICK ROAD.
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RWHSpecial weather statement, Aug 10, 10:48 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1048 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 NCZ042-075-077-078-086-088-089-110345- CUMBERLAND-HARNETT-HOKE-JOHNSTON-MOORE-SAMPSON-WAYNE- 1048 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 ...STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS JOHNSTON... WAYNE...HARNETT...MOORE...SAMPSON...CUMBERLAND AND HOKE COUNTIES THROUGH 1145 PM EDT... AT 1048 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PINEVIEW TO 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HOBBTON...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES EAST OF SOUTHERN PINES TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT OLIVE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR HOBBTON AROUND 1055 PM EDT... GODWIN AROUND 1100 PM EDT...LINDEN AROUND 1105 PM EDT...TIMBERLAKE AROUND 1110 PM EDT...ERWIN AROUND 1120 PM EDT...OLIVIA AROUND 1125 PM EDT. GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RWH
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 11:32 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1132 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 NCZ088-089-110415- CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 1132 PM EDT SUN AUG 10 2008 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS SAMPSON AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES THROUGH 1215 AM EDT... AT 1132 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WADE TO TURKEY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 MILES EAST OF FAYETTEVILLE TO WARSAW...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO INCLUDE AREAS FROM JUST NORTHEAST OF FAYETTEVILLE THROUGH AREAS JUST NORTH OF CLINTON. IN ADDITION TO HEAVY RAIN...EASILY AN INCH PER HOUR... GUSTY WINDS OF TO 45 MPH...SMALL HAIL...AND FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. WHEN THE STORMS ARE NEARBY OR OVERHEAD...STAY INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING THROUGH A SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM...SLOW DOWN AND BE PREPARED FOR PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. DJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 53 min |
| Aug 10, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 65 min |
| Aug 10, 11:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Moore, Sampson | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 2:31 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 3 hr |
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.