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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 22, 2012Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: May 22, 2012, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2012, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Harnett County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 22, 4:05 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 Ene Dunn, NC	1 INCH HAIL ON CAROLINA DRIVE
May 22, 4:14 PM EDT	HAIL 0.88	3 Ssw Benson, NC	DIME TO NICKEL SIZED HAIL
May 22, 4:18 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	4 Sse Benson, NC	DIME SIZED HAIL

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 185 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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.

138 
WWUS82 KRAH 221921
SPSRAH

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
321 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012

NCZ042-077-088-089-222015-
CUMBERLAND-HARNETT-JOHNSTON-SAMPSON-
321 PM EDT TUE MAY 22 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SECTIONS OF 
SAMPSON...HARNETT...JOHNSTON AND CUMBERLAND COUNTIES THROUGH 415 PM 
EDT...

AT 321 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
LINDEN...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTH OF LILLINGTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT
10 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...LINDEN...BUIES
CREEK...ERWIN.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN EXITS 325 AND 328.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN EXITS 70 AND 81.

DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE FIRST LIGHTNING FLASH BEFORE HEADING TO
SAFETY. MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES OR THE
FIRST SOUND OF THUNDER. MAKE SURE THAT LIGHTNING IS WELL AWAY FROM
YOUR LOCATION BEFORE RESUMING OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.

&&

LAT...LON 3552 7857 3528 7843 3516 7887 3533 7896
TIME...MOT...LOC 1921Z 245DEG 9KT 3528 7882

$$

WSS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 12:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	57 min
May 22, 1:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond, Scotland	38 min
May 22, 2:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Harnett, Hoke, Lee and 5 more	2 hr
May 22, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee	56 min
May 22, 2:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Randolph	54 min
May 22, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	55 min
May 22, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	62 min
May 22, 3:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	38 min
May 22, 3:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	45 min
May 22, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	42 min
May 22, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	43 min
May 22, 3:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	57 min
May 22, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	59 min
May 22, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson	42 min
May 22, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	35 min
May 22, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	49 min
May 22, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	56 min
May 22, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	58 min
May 22, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Wake	51 min
May 22, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	48 min
May 22, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	59 min
May 22, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	60 min
May 22, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash, Wilson	72 min
May 22, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	54 min
May 22, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Stanly	63 min
May 22, 7:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	56 min
May 22, 7:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Stanly	106 min
May 22, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	54 min
May 22, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	61 min
May 22, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly	28 min
May 22, 7:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	27 min
May 22, 7:43 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Stanly	3 hr

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.