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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 23, 2010Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 23, 2010, 6:21 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: May 23, 2010, 6:21 PM EDT (22:21 UTC)
Expired: May 23, 2010, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 240 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: 681 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 837 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 22, 8:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	2 hr
May 22, 8:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	57 min
May 22, 8:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery	83 min
May 23, 12:37 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Forsyth	3 hr
May 23, 4:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	54 min
May 23, 7:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee	55 min
May 23, 7:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	61 min
May 23, 8:34 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wake	2 hr
May 23, 8:39 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	66 min
May 23, 9:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wake	49 min
May 23, 10:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	90 min
May 23, 11:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	62 min
May 23, 11:15 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	60 min
May 23, 11:31 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	59 min
May 23, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	41 min
May 23, 1:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax	99 min
May 23, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	56 min
May 23, 2:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	41 min
May 23, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Wake	49 min
May 23, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	62 min
May 23, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	52 min
May 23, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	66 min
May 23, 3:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	14 min
May 23, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	64 min
May 23, 4:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	34 min
May 23, 5:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	64 min
May 23, 5:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham	3 hr
May 23, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville	59 min
May 23, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	51 min
May 23, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	65 min
May 23, 6:23 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wake	3 hr
May 23, 6:37 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	3 hr
May 23, 6:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	64 min
May 23, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	66 min
May 23, 7:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham	118 min
May 23, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	63 min
May 23, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	45 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.