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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 27, 2013Johnston County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2013, 3:08 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 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: Jun 27, 2013, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2013, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Johnston County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 151 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: 986 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -142 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 993 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 74 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 Jun 27, 3:08 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 3:08 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 7:27 AM EDT, 7 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:57 PM EDT, 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
257 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

NCZ074-271930-
MONTGOMERY-
257 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE ACROSS MONTGOMERY COUNTY THROUGH
330 PM EDT...

AT 257 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES
SOUTH OF TROY...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE...PEKIN...BISCOE...AND
CANDOR.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH.
DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.
HEAVY RAINFALL AND MINOR FLOODING.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS
40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND
TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR
OBJECTS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL QUICKLY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND
USE EXTRA CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

&&

LAT...LON 3536 8002 3538 7973 3530 7971 3527 7971
      3524 7967 3517 7965 3518 7968 3517 7976
      3518 7981 3518 7982 3519 8003
TIME...MOT...LOC 1857Z 276DEG 17KT 3529 7990

VINCENT

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 3:08 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
308 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

NCZ027-041>043-077-078-272000-
HARNETT-JOHNSTON-NASH-WAKE-WAYNE-WILSON-
308 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2013

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS
HARNETT...WAYNE...JOHNSTON...NASH...WILSON AND EASTERN WAKE COUNTIES
THROUGH 400 PM EDT...

AT 305 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR GARNER AND SMITHFIELD SOUTHWEST
ACROSS COATS CROSSROADS TO COATS...BENSON AND DUNN. THESE STORMS
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS INCLUDE CLAYTON...
SMITHFIELD...AND.

HAZARDS INCLUDE...
GUSTY WINDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH.
FREQUENT DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 40 BETWEEN EXITS 303 AND 334.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 95 BETWEEN EXITS 70 AND 116.

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS
40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND
TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR
OBJECTS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL QUICKLY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND RESULT
IN PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND
USE EXTRA CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

&&

LAT...LON 3561 7788 3528 7830 3526 7841 3526 7849
      3531 7855 3524 7862 3526 7871 3545 7894
      3592 7835 3587 7828 3582 7826 3586 7823
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 237DEG 21KT 3556 7846

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 8:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Sampson and 2 more	118 min
Jun 26, 8:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	54 min
Jun 26, 8:52 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	3 hr
Jun 26, 9:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	35 min
Jun 26, 11:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	87 min
Jun 27, 2:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	33 min
Jun 27, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	60 min
Jun 27, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	57 min
Jun 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	30 min
Jun 27, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	29 min
Jun 27, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	56 min
Jun 27, 5:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	58 min
Jun 27, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	55 min
Jun 27, 6:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	57 min
Jun 27, 6:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Richmond	62 min
Jun 27, 6:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	43 min
Jun 27, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	61 min
Jun 27, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	36 min
Jun 27, 6:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson	2 hr
Jun 27, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	35 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.