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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 3:03 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 87 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, 3:03 PM EDT (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 87 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Alamance County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Durham County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Lee County, NC, Orange County, NC, Wake County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 101 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, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 29, 1:58 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 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, 2 hours 18 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
103 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
NCZ042-089-291745-
JOHNSTON-SAMPSON-
103 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
...A THUNDERSTORM WITH GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE
ACROSS PARTS OF SAMPSON AND JOHNSTON COUNTIES THROUGH 145 PM EDT...
AT 102 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH WIND
GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH OVER NEWTON GROVE...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTH OF
CLINTON...MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...NEWTON GROVE.
OTHER HAZARDS INCLUDE...
HEAVY RAINFALL...A QUICK QUARTER TO HALF INCH IN LESS THAN 30
MINUTES...AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN EXITS 334 AND 343.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN EXITS 90 AND 93.
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 ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. STAY TUNED TO
THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.
&&
LAT...LON 3516 7854 3550 7838 3545 7816 3532 7823
3532 7828 3529 7830 3525 7827 3510 7835
TIME...MOT...LOC 1702Z 194DEG 12KT 3521 7841
DJFSpecial weather statement, May 29, 1:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 126 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 NCZ011-027-028-042-043-077-078-085-086-088-089-291900- HALIFAX-NASH-EDGECOMBE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-HARNETT-WAYNE-SCOTLAND- HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROANOKE RAPIDS...NASHVILLE... ROCKY MOUNT...SMITHFIELD...WILSON...LILLINGTON...GOLDSBORO... LAURINBURG...RAEFORD...FAYETTEVILLE...CLINTON 126 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE AFTERNOON... AT 120 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALONG AND NEAR A LINE FROM LAURINBURG TO TARBORO. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH AT AROUND 15 MPH. AN OBSERVATION FROM THE FAYETTEVILLE AIRPORT SHOWED A WIND GUST JUST OVER 35 MPH AT 112 PM. HAZARDS INCLUDE... WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. HEAVY RAINFALL...A QUICK QUARTER TO HALF INCH IN LESS THAN 30 MINUTES. OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. PERSONS DRIVING ALONG INTERSTATE 95 SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR GUSTY WINDS...BRIEFLY HEAVY RAIN...REDUCED VISIBILITY IN ANY HEAVY RAIN... AND PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS. FOR THOSE OUTDOORS...MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SOUND OF THUNDER. MAKE SURE THAT LIGHTNING IS WELL AWAY FROM YOUR LOCATION BEFORE RESUMING ANY OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. DJF
Special weather statement, May 29, 3:03 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
303 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
NCZ023>025-040-041-076-077-292030-
ALAMANCE-CHATHAM-DURHAM-HARNETT-LEE-ORANGE-WAKE-
303 PM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS HARNETT... WAKE...
ORANGE... LEE... DURHAM... CHATHAM AND ALAMANCE COUNTIES THROUGH 430
PM EDT...
AT 300 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
SEMINOLE...OR ABOUT 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF LILLINGTON...MOVING NORTH AT
25 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... DUNCAN...
SANFORD... PITTSBORO... HOLLY SPRINGS... NEW HILL... APEX...
CARPENTER... MORRISVILLE...AND CHAPEL HILL.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. STRONG WINDS ARE
CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREES AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...
POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3624 7880 3609 7881 3607 7879 3608 7868
3602 7853 3587 7828 3582 7826 3571 7847
3552 7871 3534 7853 3525 7862 3527 7879
3519 7910 3527 7922 3531 7919 3535 7927
3547 7936 3552 7935 3552 7956 3625 7953
TIME...MOT...LOC 1900Z 180DEG 20KT 3547 7893
10The 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, 12:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 30 min |
| May 29, 1:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 42 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 |
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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.