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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 237, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 16, 2010, 11:36 PM EST for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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
- Nov 16, 2010, 11:36 PM EST (04:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 17, 2010, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Durham County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 8:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 572 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 281 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 16, 8:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 44 min |
| Nov 16, 9:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 43 min |
| Nov 16, 9:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 28 min |
| Nov 16, 9:50 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 55 min |
| Nov 16, 9:57 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 10:01 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Forsyth | 52 min |
| Nov 16, 10:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth, Guilford | 26 min |
| Nov 16, 10:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 34 min |
| Nov 16, 10:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Durham, Orange | 64 min |
| Nov 16, 11:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 23 min |
| Nov 16, 11:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee, Moore | 45 min |
| Nov 16, 11:53 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Lee | 67 min |
| Nov 16, 11:56 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 32 min |
| Nov 17, 12:12 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Wake, Warren | 15 min |
| Nov 17, 12:16 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Scotland | 44 min |
| Nov 17, 12:18 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 42 min |
| Nov 17, 12:23 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wake, Warren | 52 min |
| Nov 17, 12:52 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson | 38 min |
| Nov 17, 1:03 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 42 min |
| Nov 17, 1:05 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 40 min |
| Nov 17, 1:07 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 27 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.