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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 12:45 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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 29, 2012, 12:45 PM EDT (16:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 1:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Wayne County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:49 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
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 192 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
- 329 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -46 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at May 29, 10:07 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 10:07 AM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 NCZ007-021>024-038>040-073>076-083-084-300930- PERSON-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM- STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-ANSON-RICHMOND- 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MAY OCCUR WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER HAZARD WILL BE STRONG TO LOCALLY DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ALONG A COLD FRONT THAT WILL AFFECT CENTRAL NC FRIDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NCZ028-042-043-077-078-085-086-088-089-300930- EDGECOMBE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-HARNETT-WAYNE-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND- SAMPSON- 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON WITH ANOTHER ROUND ANTICIPATED LATE TONIGHT. DUE TO THE MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE...LOCALLY EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE REGION WEDNESDAY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF TWO TO FOUR INCHES WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS MAY LEAD TO FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. NCZ008>011-025>027-041-300930- GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-WAKE- 439 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE ASSOCIATED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT OCCUR ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR WEDNESDAY. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT AS A COLD FRONT CROSSES THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER INCLUDING RAINFALL AMOUNTS IN EXCESS OF TWO INCHES TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 29, 12:45 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:54 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Cumberland, Edgecombe, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Sampson and 3 more | 35 hr |
| May 29, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 42 min |
| May 29, 3:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Harnett, Lee, Orange and 1 more | 87 min |
| May 29, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke | 96 min |
| May 29, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland, Stanly | 91 min |
| May 29, 3:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond | 66 min |
| May 29, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore | 33 min |
| May 29, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Moore | 38 min |
| May 29, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance | 40 min |
| May 29, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance | 36 min |
| May 29, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 50 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2012Every 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.