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 19, 2012, 4:26 AM EDT for 12 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 2 hr. 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 19, 2012, 4:26 AM EDT (08:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2012, 6:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Alamance County, NC, Chatham County, NC, Durham County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC, Randolph County, NC, Vance County, NC, Wake County, NC, Warren County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 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 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 423 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1122 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
949
WWUS82 KRAH 190826
SPSRAH
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
426 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012
NCZ007>010-021>026-038>041-191045-
ALAMANCE-CHATHAM-DAVIDSON-DURHAM-FORSYTH-FRANKLIN-GRANVILLE-GUILFORD-
ORANGE-PERSON-RANDOLPH-VANCE-WAKE-WARREN-
426 AM EDT SUN AUG 19 2012
...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF THE NORTHWEST
AND NORTHEAST PIEDMONT...
AT 424 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY
HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM THE GREENSBORO AIRPORT TO ASHEBORO... EAST
THROUGH BURLINGTON AND HAW RIVER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE GREENSBORO...
RANDLEMAN... CLIMAX... ELON... BURLINGTON... HILLSBOROUGH...
ROXBORO. THIS WILL INCLUDE MUCH OF NORTHERN RANDOLPH... GUILFORD...
ALAMANCE... NORTHERN ORANGE... AND PERSON COUNTIES.
IN ADDITION... SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER
WESTERN WAKE COUNTY.. MOVING NORTH AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY
AFFECT THE RDU AIRPORT AND DURHAM.
HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.
THESE STORMS 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 3654 7789 3630 7794 3582 7825 3557 7865
3558 7892 3555 7903 3563 7912 3554 7926
3551 8005 3623 8015 3627 8003 3625 7916
3652 7914 3655 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0821Z 232DEG 30KT 3613 7927
$$
BADGETTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 8:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 11 min |
| Aug 19, 4:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Orange, Randolph | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 6:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Guilford and 6 more | 116 min |
| Aug 19, 6:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Orange, Person and 2 more | 92 min |
| Aug 19, 7:37 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 4 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 8:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham | 50 min |
| Aug 19, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Nash, Vance, Warren | 51 min |
| Aug 19, 8:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond, Scotland | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 8:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 9:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 9:09 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 23 min |
| Aug 19, 9:20 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Halifax, Vance, Warren | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery, Moore | 65 min |
| Aug 19, 9:41 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 9:47 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Richmond, Scotland | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 9:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 58 min |
| Aug 19, 10:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 11:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Halifax, Warren | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Sampson | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 11:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 78 min |
| Aug 19, 12:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson, Wayne | 64 min |
| Aug 19, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 46 min |
Nearby
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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.