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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 28, 20105 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2010, 7:50 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 55 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: May 28, 2010, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2010, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Hoke County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 141 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -209 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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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 May 28, 7:07 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 28, 7:07 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 28, 4:16 AM EDT, 15 hours 34 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
416 AM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-290930-
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-
416 AM EDT FRI MAY 28 2010

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TODAY AND THIS
EVENING AS A COLD FRONT DRIFTS SOUTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE REGION. THE
MAIN SEVERE WEATHER HAZARDS WILL BE DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND
LARGE HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF QUARTERS. IN ADDITION...NEARLY
CONTINUOUS LIGHTNING STRIKES MAY OCCUR WITH THE STRONGER STORMS.

SINCE THE WINDS ALOFT ARE WEAK...THE LACKING OF A STEERING FLOW
WILL RESULT IN SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND STORMS. THIS MAY LEAD TO
LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WHICH MAY CAUSE BRIEF FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS...STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

THE THREAT FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE GREATEST BETWEEN 1 PM
AND 10 PM.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND
EVENING.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 28, 7:04 PM EDT, 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 7:17 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 7:17 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 7:29 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 28, 7:37 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 28, 7:40 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 8:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	29 min
May 27, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	28 min
May 27, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Person	26 min
May 28, 3:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	54 min
May 28, 3:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Warren	80 min
May 28, 5:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson	50 min
May 28, 6:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	51 min
May 28, 8:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	58 min
May 28, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	47 min
May 28, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	38 min
May 28, 5:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Forsyth	3 hr
May 28, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	30 min
May 28, 6:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	42 min
May 28, 6:19 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson	4 hr
May 28, 6:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Forsyth	2 hr
May 28, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	47 min
May 28, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	52 min
May 28, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	51 min
May 28, 7:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	46 min
May 28, 7:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	58 min
May 28, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	61 min
May 28, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	53 min
May 28, 7:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	38 min
May 28, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	51 min

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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.