Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 672
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jul 8, 2008, 6:34 PM EDT for 31 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2008, 6:34 PM EDT (22:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2008, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 31 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:38 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 10%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Jul 8, 8:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 8:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 8:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 28 min |
| Jul 8, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 43 min |
| Jul 8, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 9:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 2 hr |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Beaufort, Bertie, Bladen, Brunswick, Camden and 49 more | 86 min |
| Jul 8, 1:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 32 more | 9 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson and 6 more | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 3:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaufort, Bertie, Camden, Carteret, Chowan, Craven and 18 more | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 5:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anson, Bladen, Columbus, Cumberland, Davidson, Harnett and 11 more | 30 min |
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.