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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 14, 2012Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 14, 2012, 2:53 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 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 14, 2012, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
Expired: Aug 14, 2012, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 145 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1533 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 14, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 1:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 14, 12:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1220 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-151630-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-
ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-
JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-
RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
1220 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE TRACKS
NORTHEAST THROUGH THE CAROLINAS. AN ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WITH A PRIMARY THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS WILL BE POSSIBLE...
PRIMARILY BETWEEN 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 10 PM THIS EVENING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
AND EVENING AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE AND SURFACE COLD
FRONT MOVE THROUGH THE AREA. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER IS
EXPECTED TO BE GREATEST EAST OF HIGHWAY 1.

.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 14, 2:53 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
253 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

NCZ085-142000-
SCOTLAND-
253 PM EDT TUE AUG 14 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS SCOTLAND COUNTY THROUGH 400
PM EDT...

AT 253 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES
SOUTHWEST OF GIBSON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF BENNETTSVILLE...
MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...GIBSON...LAUREL
HILL...LAURINBURG...EAST LAURINBURG...WAGRAM.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.

HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

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.

THIS STORM 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 3481 7969 3482 7962 3484 7962 3485 7963
      3487 7961 3500 7940 3494 7935 3485 7934
      3482 7935 3477 7933 3464 7945 3463 7948
TIME...MOT...LOC 1853Z 249DEG 24KT 3470 7973

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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 14, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	23 min

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.