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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 21, 20125 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 21, 2012, 2:08 PM EDT for 5 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 21, 2012, 2:08 PM EDT (18:08 UTC)
Expired: Jul 21, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Anson County, NC, Cumberland County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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: 679 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 870 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 69 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.

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What forecasters said that day

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 Jul 21, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 21, 9:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 21, 4:49 AM EDT, 9 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 21, 10:17 AM EDT, 3 hours 51 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:21 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 1:46 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 21, 2:08 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
208 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2012

NCZ083>086-088-211845-
ANSON-CUMBERLAND-HOKE-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-
208 PM EDT SAT JUL 21 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF SCOTLAND...
RICHMOND...CUMBERLAND...ANSON AND HOKE COUNTIES THROUGH 245 PM EDT...

AT 205 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS FROM JUST WEST OF FAYETTEVILLE...THROUGH RAEFORD...
TO JUST SOUTH OF WADESBORO. ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 15
MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE ROCKINGHAM...
ROCKFISH...RAEFORD...AND FAYETTEVILLE.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH.

IF YOU SEE LIGHTNING OR HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE AT RISK. TAKE SHELTER
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU CANNOT FIND SHELTER IN A BUILDING A
VEHICLE PROVIDES SAFETY FROM LIGHTNING. GUSTY WINDS FROM STORMS CAN
BLOW AROUND LIGHTWEIGHT OBJECTS LEFT OUTDOORS. STAY TUNED TO THIS
STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION.

&&

LAT...LON 3474 7960 3483 7962 3481 8032 3519 8028
      3515 8016 3519 8011 3514 8003 3518 7968
      3504 7946 3521 7925 3517 7912 3526 7882
      3525 7864 3499 7865 3486 7850 3483 7890
      3495 7904 3483 7919 3483 7934 3463 7946
TIME...MOT...LOC 1805Z 259DEG 11KT 3495 7922

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 21, 1:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	47 min
Jul 21, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	54 min
Jul 21, 1:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	44 min
Jul 21, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	40 min
Jul 21, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	30 min
Jul 21, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	35 min
Jul 21, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	51 min
Jul 21, 3:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	57 min
Jul 21, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	65 min
Jul 21, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	47 min
Jul 21, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	43 min
Jul 21, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	55 min
Jul 21, 4:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	48 min
Jul 21, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee	65 min
Jul 21, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	66 min
Jul 21, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	39 min
Jul 21, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	61 min
Jul 21, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	17 min
Jul 21, 6:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Orange, Person	58 min
Jul 21, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	52 min
Jul 21, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	43 min
Jul 21, 6:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	58 min
Jul 21, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Warren	54 min
Jul 21, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	52 min
Jul 21, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	41 min
Jul 21, 6:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Halifax	39 min
Jul 21, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Warren	63 min
Jul 21, 7:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	3 hr
Jul 21, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance, Warren	39 min
Jul 21, 7:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	55 min
Jul 21, 7:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Orange, Wake	59 min

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.