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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 215, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 12, 2010Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2010, 4:19 PM EDT for Sampson 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
Aug 12, 2010, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2010, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:15 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 12, 10:36 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 12, 3:36 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 12, 4:12 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 9:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHForsyth, Guilford20 min
Aug 11, 9:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHForsyth, Guilford3 hr
Aug 11, 10:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph67 min
Aug 11, 10:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHDavidson, Randolph2 hr
Aug 11, 10:59 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHFranklin61 min
Aug 11, 11:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Nash, Wake58 min
Aug 11, 11:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWake67 min
Aug 11, 11:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake63 min
Aug 12, 12:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHEdgecombe, Halifax, Nash96 min
Aug 12, 12:28 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHForsyth, Guilford84 min
Aug 12, 12:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash, Wilson44 min
Aug 12, 12:38 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHFranklin84 min
Aug 12, 1:29 AM EDTHeat AdvisoryRAHAlamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe and 21 more17 hr
Aug 12, 3:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson39 min
Aug 12, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson48 min
Aug 12, 5:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHBladen59 min
Aug 12, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGuilford45 min
Aug 12, 7:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHalifax, Warren52 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2010Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2010

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.