Alert archive / North Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 24, 2012, 3:08 AM EDT for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 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
- May 24, 2012, 3:08 AM EDT (07:08 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2012, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Edgecombe County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 911 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1019 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS82 KRAH 240708
SPSRAH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
308 AM EDT THU MAY 24 2012
NCZ027-028-043-240815-
EDGECOMBE-NASH-WILSON-
308 AM EDT THU MAY 24 2012
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NASH...WILSON AND
EDGECOMBE COUNTIES THROUGH 415 AM EDT...
AT 308 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES EAST OF SHARPSBURG...OR ABOUT 8 MILES
SOUTH OF ROCKY MOUNT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...ROCKY MOUNT...KINGSBORO...LEGGETT.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.
&&
LAT...LON 3571 7767 3583 7793 3614 7767 3614 7766
3614 7764 3612 7762 3611 7763 3611 7761
3589 7734 3588 7734
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 206DEG 11KT 3585 7774
$$
23The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 8:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 42 min |
| May 23, 8:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 99 min |
| May 23, 8:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe | 58 min |
| May 24, 3:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Edgecombe | 3 hr |
| May 24, 5:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 2 hr |
| May 24, 5:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 91 min |
| May 24, 4:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Vance, Warren | 2 hr |
| May 24, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 54 min |
| May 24, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 58 min |
| May 24, 6:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Franklin | 3 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.