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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 11, 2012Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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: Jun 11, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 389 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 772 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 158 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 11, 1:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson	85 min
Jun 11, 2:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Stanly	51 min
Jun 11, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Lee	55 min
Jun 11, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	58 min
Jun 11, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	49 min
Jun 11, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Lee	90 min
Jun 11, 5:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee	72 min
Jun 11, 5:26 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	79 min
Jun 11, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	72 min
Jun 11, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wake	40 min
Jun 11, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Wake	3 hr

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.