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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2012, 3:10 AM EDT for Anson County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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 7, 2012, 3:10 AM EDT (07:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2012, 4:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Anson County, NC, Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 152 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 277 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1519 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
383
WWUS82 KRAH 070710
SPSRAH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
310 AM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
NCZ083-084-070800-
ANSON-RICHMOND-
310 AM EDT TUE AUG 7 2012
...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE ACROSS
RICHMOND AND ANSON COUNTIES THROUGH 400 AM EDT...
AT 307 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
WITH HEAVY RAIN 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF WHITE STORE...OR ABOUT 13 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF WADESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...MORVEN...WADESBORO...LILESVILLE...
ROCKINGHAM... ELLERBE... AND POLKTON.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...WHICH WILL CAUSE MINOR
FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS INCLUDING DITCHES...CREEKS...ROADWAYS AND
AREAS OF POOR DRAINAGE. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED
ROADS. MOTORISTS SHOULD ALSO REDUCE DRIVING SPEEDS TO AVOID
HYDROPLANING.
&&
LAT...LON 3495 8031 3514 8008 3514 8002 3516 7999
3516 7995 3516 7989 3489 7960 3480 7989
3481 8030 3484 8033
TIME...MOT...LOC 0707Z 229DEG 15KT 3483 8020
$$
77The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 8:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 103 min |
| Aug 6, 9:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 108 min |
| Aug 6, 9:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 53 min |
| Aug 6, 10:46 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Forsyth | 74 min |
| Aug 6, 11:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Granville, Person | 80 min |
| Aug 7, 3:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 56 min |
| Aug 7, 4:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 60 min |
| Aug 7, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson | 61 min |
| Aug 7, 4:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 47 min |
| Aug 7, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 36 min |
| Aug 7, 5:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett | 117 min |
| Aug 7, 6:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Halifax | 81 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.