Alert archive / North Carolina / Fire Weather Watches in 2012
Fire Weather Watch 3, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this fire weather watch at Apr 9, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT for 31 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Apr 10, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 9, 2012, 10:03 AM EDT (14:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 10, 2012, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 10, 2012, 3:55 AM EDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
All 31 counties
Alamance County, NC, Anson County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Davidson County, NC, Durham County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Montgomery County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Stanly County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.1 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 2628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 9, 10:03 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Edgecombe, Forsyth and 12 more | 10 hr |
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.