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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 15, 2010Montgomery County, Moore County, Richmond County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2010, 5:44 PM EDT for Montgomery County, Moore County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 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
Jun 15, 2010, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2010, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:47 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 nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 259 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3097 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2010-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 16 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
3097 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-60 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1213 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 4:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson53 min
Jun 15, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Montgomery, Stanly40 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson, Stanly46 min
Jun 15, 4:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGuilford65 min
Jun 15, 5:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMontgomery, Richmond95 min
Jun 15, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford54 min
Jun 15, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke, Moore, Richmond, Scotland41 min
Jun 15, 6:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake37 min
Jun 15, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance, Guilford59 min
Jun 15, 7:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHChatham58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.