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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 11, 2011Stanly County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 10:14 PM EDT for Stanly 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 2011, 10:14 PM EDT (02:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2011, 11:15 PM EDT
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Stanly County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 155 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -204 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1499 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 11, 9:43 PM EDT, 31 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 11, 9:43 PM EDT, 31 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 11, 5:38 AM EDT, 16 hours 36 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
538 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>041-043-073>076-083-084-121100-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-
ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-
WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-ANSON-RICHMOND-
538 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS...NEARLY STATIONARY OR WITH VERY SLOW
MOVEMENT...WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. THE SLOW
STORM MOVEMENT WILL RESULT IN LOCALLY VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A
SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME...AND A CONSEQUENT THREAT OF LOCALIZED
FLOODING. THE STRONGEST STORMS WILL ALSO POSE A THREAT OF STRONG
TO SEVERE WIND GUSTS AND HAIL TO AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER THIS
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

ADDITIONAL SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND DRIFT
GENERALLY SOUTHEASTWARD AT AROUND 10 MPH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
EVENING. THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY
DOWNPOURS... ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND HAIL TO AROUND ONE
INCH IN DIAMETER.

NCZ042-077-078-085-086-088-089-121100-
JOHNSTON-HARNETT-WAYNE-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
538 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH LATE THIS
EVENING...MAINLY FROM NEAR LILLINGTON TO SMITHFIELD TO GOLDSBORO.
LITTLE TO NO STORM MOVEMENT WILL RESULT IN A THREAT OF LOCALLY
VERY HEAVY RAINFALL IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME...AND A CONSEQUENT
THREAT OF LOCALIZED FLOODING. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE WIND
GUSTS AND OCCURENCE OF HAIL TO AROUND ONE INCH IN DIAMETER WILL
ALSO BE POSSIBLE...MAINLY THIS AFTERNOON.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND DRIFT GENERALLY
SOUTHEASTWARD AT AROUND 10 MPH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
THESE STORMS WILL ALSO BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING HEAVY DOWNPOURS...
ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS...AND HAIL TO AROUND ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER.

MWS

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 11, 8:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 9:22 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 9:34 PM EDT, 40 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 11, 10:14 PM 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
Jun 11, 8:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson	65 min
Jun 12, 12:21 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond	2 hr
Jun 12, 5:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	54 min
Jun 12, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	38 min
Jun 12, 5:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	56 min
Jun 12, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	53 min
Jun 12, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	46 min
Jun 12, 5:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	48 min
Jun 12, 6:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	59 min
Jun 12, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Stanly	55 min
Jun 12, 6:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Vance, Warren	51 min
Jun 12, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	44 min
Jun 12, 7:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake	59 min
Jun 12, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	24 hr
Jun 12, 7:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly	74 min
Jun 12, 7:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	59 min
Jun 12, 7:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	35 min
Jun 12, 7:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	91 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.