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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Oct 19, 2011, 5:05 PM EDT for Hoke County, Scotland County, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 19, 2011, 5:05 PM EDT (21:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 19, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Hoke County, NC, Scotland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 137 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 525 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Oct 19, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 3:11 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 3:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 353 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-202000- 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- 353 PM EDT WED OCT 19 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL CHARGE ACROSS CENTRAL NC LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. BANDS OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF THE FRONT...SOME OF WHICH WILL PRODUCE WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH AND SMALL HAIL...ESPECIALLY OVER THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT...SANDHILLS...AND COASTAL PLAIN OF NC. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. WESTERLY WINDS WILL BE QUITE BREEZY THURSDAY ACROSS CENTRAL NC... WITH GUSTS UP TO 35 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 19, 5:05 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 19, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 45 min |
| Oct 19, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph | 53 min |
| Oct 19, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 50 min |
| Oct 19, 6:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson | 57 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.