Alert archive / North Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2012

Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 26, 2012Forsyth County, Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 26, 2012, 2:04 AM EDT for Forsyth County, Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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 26, 2012, 2:04 AM EDT (06:04 UTC)
Expired: Apr 26, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:06 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 00:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 32 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 99 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 221 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 26, 2:03 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth, Guilford	57 min
Apr 26, 3:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Nash, Orange and 1 more	83 min
Apr 26, 4:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Nash, Wilson	49 min
Apr 26, 10:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and 7 more	49 min
Apr 26, 10:56 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford and 7 more	64 min
Apr 26, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	47 min
Apr 26, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	14 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012 Every special weather statement in 2012

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.