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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 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 8, 2012, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Forsyth County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:50 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 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 1351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 797 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 34 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Aug 8, 10:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 10:19 AM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 8, 12:04 PM EDT, 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1204 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 NCZ007-008-021>025-038>041-074>076-083-084-091615- PERSON-GRANVILLE-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DURHAM-DAVIDSON- RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-ANSON-RICHMOND- 1204 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED TO WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON. ONE OR TWO STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND FRIDAY NIGHT. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE DAMAGING WIND GUSTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SEVERE OR SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IMMEDIATELY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 12:48 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1248 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
NCZ021-081730-
FORSYTH-
1248 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PARTS OF FORSYTH COUNTY
THROUGH 130 PM EDT...
AT 1247 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
DONNAHA AND EAST BEND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...RURAL
HALL...PFAFFTOWN...AND...STANLEYVILLE.
THE STORM COULD APPROACH WINSTON-SALEM AFTER 115 PM.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINFALL...A QUICK INCH IN LOCAL AREAS IN 15 MINUTES
OR LESS...RESULTING IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN EXITS 182 AND 192.
DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE FIRST LIGHTNING FLASH BEFORE HEADING TO
SAFETY. MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES OR THE
FIRST SOUND OF THUNDER. MAKE SURE THAT LIGHTNING IS WELL AWAY FROM
YOUR LOCATION BEFORE RESUMING OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. WHEN DRIVING IN
HEAVY RAIN...SLOW DOWN TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.
&&
LAT...LON 3610 8052 3612 8050 3612 8046 3614 8044
3621 8045 3622 8044 3624 8046 3626 8045
3627 8029 3619 8004 3598 8039
TIME...MOT...LOC 1647Z 296DEG 15KT 3621 8044
DJFThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 1:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 1:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Forsyth | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 1:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 2:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 3:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 73 min |
| Aug 8, 3:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Randolph | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Vance, Warren | 61 min |
| Aug 8, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 60 min |
| Aug 8, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 66 min |
| Aug 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Lee | 107 min |
| Aug 8, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 62 min |
| Aug 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham, Granville | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Cumberland, Hoke, Richmond, Scotland | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 6:19 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 8, 6:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 64 min |
| Aug 8, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 41 min |
| Aug 8, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Wake | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 7:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 7:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 54 min |
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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.