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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2014, 2:39 PM EDT for Hoke County, Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 51 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2014, 2:39 PM EDT (18:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Hoke County, NC, Moore County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:41 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, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 113 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 864 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 153 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 1:50 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Apr 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke | 61 min |
| Apr 28, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 39 min |
| Apr 28, 4:01 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 50 hr |
| Apr 28, 4:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 29 min |
| Apr 28, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke | 46 min |
| Apr 28, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Moore | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 6:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Bladen | 33 min |
| Apr 28, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 40 min |
| Apr 28, 7:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 39 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.