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 8, 2012, 5:51 PM EDT for Durham County, Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 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, 5:51 PM EDT (21:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Durham County, NC, Granville County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 108 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.
060
WWUS82 KRAH 082151
SPSRAH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
551 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
NCZ007-008-025-082245-
DURHAM-GRANVILLE-PERSON-
551 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS PERSON...GRANVILLE AND
DURHAM COUNTIES THROUGH 645 PM EDT...
AT 551 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER
BEREA...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF OXFORD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
MPH.
SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...STEM...CREEDMOOR.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
PEA SIZE HAIL.
GUSTY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH.
THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 85 BETWEEN EXITS 174 AND 204.
THIS INCLUDES THE DURHAM FREEWAY BETWEEN EXITS 11 AND 16.
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.
&&
LAT...LON 3627 7851 3618 7851 3617 7850 3609 7854
3606 7854 3604 7860 3607 7868 3608 7874
3604 7876 3594 7895 3624 7895 3624 7897
3633 7897 3644 7874
TIME...MOT...LOC 2151Z 322DEG 14KT 3630 7875
$$
22The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 12:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 42 min |
| 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, 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.