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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 28, 2011Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Nov 28, 2011, 11:28 PM EST for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 32 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: Nov 28, 2011, 11:28 PM EST (04:28 UTC)
Expired: Nov 29, 2011, 12:00 AM EST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:30 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 124 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: 27 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 268 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 353 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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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 28, 9:34 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Forsyth and 9 more	86 min
Nov 28, 11:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	25 min
Nov 28, 11:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	37 min
Nov 29, 2:47 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	3 hr
Nov 29, 3:09 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Guilford	112 min
Nov 29, 3:28 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Orange, Wake	3 hr
Nov 29, 3:40 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	76 min
Nov 29, 5:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	85 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.