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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 30, 2012Moore County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 30, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT for Moore 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: Jul 30, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT (17:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 2012, 2:30 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Moore County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:30 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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: 1355 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 883 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 30, 12:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 12:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 30, 4:01 AM EDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 30, 1:30 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
130 PM EDT MON JUL 30 2012

NCZ075-076-301830-
LEE-MOORE-
130 PM EDT MON JUL 30 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS MOORE AND LEE COUNTIES
THROUGH 230 PM EDT...

AT 130 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CAMERON...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CARTHAGE...MOVING SOUTHWEST
AT 10 MPH.

LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE WHISPERING PINES...
SOUTHERN PINES...PINEHURST...TAYLORTOWN.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
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.

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.

&&

LAT...LON 3504 7946 3506 7948 3506 7955 3531 7968
      3549 7911 3542 7907 3527 7922 3521 7925
      3516 7934
TIME...MOT...LOC 1730Z 067DEG 11KT 3530 7931

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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 29, 9:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	94 min
Jul 30, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Johnston	57 min
Jul 30, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	48 min
Jul 30, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Moore, Richmond	58 min
Jul 30, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Lee	55 min
Jul 30, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	38 min
Jul 30, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash, Wilson	60 min
Jul 30, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Richmond	55 min
Jul 30, 3:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Harnett, Hoke, Moore	110 min
Jul 30, 4:13 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake	107 min
Jul 30, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	48 min
Jul 30, 4:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	52 min
Jul 30, 5:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	63 min
Jul 30, 5:14 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Orange	76 min
Jul 30, 5:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	58 min
Jul 30, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Orange	57 min
Jul 30, 6:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	64 min
Jul 30, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	44 min
Jul 30, 7:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	62 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.