Alert archive / North Carolina / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2012, 6:39 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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
- Aug 6, 2012, 6:39 PM EDT (22:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2012, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Montgomery County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:41 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 854 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
846
WWUS82 KRAH 062239
SPSRAH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
639 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
NCZ038-039-073-074-062315-
DAVIDSON-MONTGOMERY-RANDOLPH-STANLY-
639 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS STANLY...RANDOLPH...
MONTGOMERY AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES THROUGH 715 PM EDT...
AT 637 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER
ELDORADO...OR ABOUT 11 MILES NORTHEAST OF ALBEMARLE...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE NEW HOPE AND BADIN
LAKE.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL TREE
LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE
AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL RESULT
IN MINOR FLOODING AND PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. MOTORISTS
ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND USE EXTRA CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.
&&
LAT...LON 3551 8029 3551 8020 3555 8020 3570 7986
3552 7975 3551 7975 3551 7977 3546 7976
3531 8022 3549 8031
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 243DEG 9KT 3548 8005
$$
VINCENTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 5:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 66 min |
| Aug 6, 5:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 6:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 6:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 61 min |
| Aug 6, 7:11 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 58 min |
Nearby
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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.