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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 28, 20116 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 28, 2011, 9:13 AM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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: Apr 28, 2011, 9:13 AM EDT (13:13 UTC)
Expired: Apr 28, 2011, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Wake County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:14 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 320 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 940 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 371 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 1.8

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Apr 28, 8:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 8:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 28, 7:55 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
755 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

NCZ007-008-021>025-038-039-073-074-083-084-291200-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DURHAM-DAVIDSON-
RANDOLPH-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-ANSON-RICHMOND-
755 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

...TORNADO WATCH 250 IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   TORNADO WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ009>011-026>028-040>043-075>078-085-086-088-089-291200-
VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-CHATHAM-WAKE-JOHNSTON-
WILSON-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
755 AM EDT THU APR 28 2011

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING...
...TORNADO WATCH 250 IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON EDT TODAY...

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE
INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS.

   HIGH WIND WARNING.
   TORNADO WATCH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

VINCENT

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 28, 9:03 AM EDT, 10 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 28, 9:11 AM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 28, 9:13 AM EDT, 0 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
Apr 28, 3:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	60 min
Apr 28, 4:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	55 min
Apr 28, 4:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	36 min
Apr 28, 4:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	18 min
Apr 28, 4:41 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	34 min
Apr 28, 5:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	46 min
Apr 28, 5:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Orange	38 min
Apr 28, 5:35 AM EDT	High Wind Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 17 more	8 hr
Apr 28, 6:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	53 min
Apr 28, 6:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Richmond, Scotland	34 min
Apr 28, 7:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	45 min
Apr 28, 7:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Richmond, Scotland	49 min
Apr 28, 8:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	49 min
Apr 28, 9:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	54 min
Apr 28, 9:45 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	60 min
Apr 28, 9:52 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	38 min
Apr 28, 10:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	42 min
Apr 28, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	24 min
Apr 28, 11:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	42 min
Apr 28, 11:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	38 min
Apr 28, 11:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee, Moore, Richmond	41 min
Apr 28, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	41 min
Apr 28, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Moore	52 min
Apr 28, 12:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	56 min
Apr 28, 1:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	30 min
Apr 28, 2:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson	38 min
Apr 28, 2:16 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	104 min
Apr 28, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	47 min
Apr 28, 2:50 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson	23 min
Apr 28, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	65 min
Apr 28, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	60 min
Apr 28, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	54 min
Apr 28, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	63 min
Apr 28, 6:35 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	24 min
Apr 28, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	41 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2011 Every special weather statement in 2011

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.