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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 11, 2012Forsyth County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 11, 2012, 2:15 AM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 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 11, 2012, 2:15 AM EDT (06:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2012, 2:45 AM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Forsyth County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -19 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 955 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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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 Aug 11, 2:08 AM EDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:08 AM EDT, 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 10, 8:48 PM EDT, 5 hours 27 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 10, 11:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 1:01 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 11, 2:15 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 10, 11:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	43 min
Aug 11, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	59 min
Aug 11, 4:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	24 min
Aug 11, 4:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	12 min
Aug 11, 5:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	40 min
Aug 11, 6:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	49 min
Aug 11, 6:44 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	46 min
Aug 11, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	57 min
Aug 11, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	61 min
Aug 11, 12:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Warren	61 min
Aug 11, 1:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	55 min
Aug 11, 1:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax, Nash	25 min
Aug 11, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange, Person	57 min
Aug 11, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Orange	61 min
Aug 11, 2:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	52 min
Aug 11, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, Vance	50 min
Aug 11, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Warren	55 min
Aug 11, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Granville, Orange, Person, Vance	56 min
Aug 11, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	61 min
Aug 11, 3:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Aug 11, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Warren	63 min
Aug 11, 4:07 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Warren	3 hr
Aug 11, 4:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson	83 min
Aug 11, 4:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Nash, Wayne, Wilson	3 hr
Aug 11, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	69 min
Aug 11, 5:13 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	62 min
Aug 11, 5:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson	3 hr
Aug 11, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	32 min
Aug 11, 7:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr

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.