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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 15, 2012Montgomery County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 15, 2012, 1:46 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 15, 2012, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 2012, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Montgomery County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 136 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:46 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, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 86 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: 146 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -85 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1222 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 15, 1:03 PM EDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 15, 1:03 PM EDT, 43 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 15, 10:23 AM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 15, 1:46 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BLACKSBURG VA
146 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

NCZ073-074-083-084-151845-
ANSON NC-MONTGOMERY NC-RICHMOND NC-STANLY NC-
146 PM EDT WED AUG 15 2012

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT ANSON...MONTGOMERY...RICHMOND
AND STANLY COUNTIES...

AT 143 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED 11 MILES SOUTHEAST
OF ALBEMARLE...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR MOUNT GILEAD AROUND 200 PM...PEKIN AROUND 225
PM...TROY AROUND 230 PM AND CANDOR AROUND 245 PM.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET FOR LATER
UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

LAT...LON 3546 7978 3515 7967 3516 8018 3529 8020

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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, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	56 min
Aug 14, 8:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	37 min
Aug 14, 10:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	59 min
Aug 14, 10:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	39 min
Aug 14, 10:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	24 min
Aug 14, 11:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	40 min
Aug 15, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	51 min
Aug 15, 2:26 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	34 min
Aug 15, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Richmond	25 min
Aug 15, 3:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	59 min
Aug 15, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	39 min
Aug 15, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash	35 min
Aug 15, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	50 min
Aug 15, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	54 min
Aug 15, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	47 min
Aug 15, 4:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	61 min
Aug 15, 4:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	48 min
Aug 15, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	61 min
Aug 15, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake	25 min
Aug 15, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash, Wilson	59 min
Aug 15, 6:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	60 min
Aug 15, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	52 min
Aug 15, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	40 min
Aug 15, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wake	81 min
Aug 15, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	41 min
Aug 15, 7:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	79 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.