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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 15, 2014Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 15, 2014, 4:49 AM EDT for Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 56 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: Apr 15, 2014, 4:49 AM EDT (08:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 15, 2014, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Randolph County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 63 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: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 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 Apr 15, 4:41 AM EDT, 8 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 15, 4:41 AM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 15, 4:43 AM EDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:23 AM EDT, 1 hour 26 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
323 AM EDT TUE APR 15 2014

NCZ073-083-150800-
ANSON-STANLY-
323 AM EDT TUE APR 15 2014

...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR NORTHWESTERN ANSON COUNTY AND
STANLY COUNTY IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...

 UNTIL 400 AM EDT...

AT 322 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
THUNDERSTORM 19 MILES WEST OF ANSONVILLE...OR 23 MILES WEST OF
WADESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ALBEMARLE...ANSONVILLE...PLYLER...LOCUST...NORWOOD...BADIN...
OAKBORO...STANFIELD...RICHFIELD...NEW LONDON...PEACHLAND AND FINGER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND
BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER
LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS. DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK
ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. IF THE STORM INTENSIFIES AND ROTATION
STRENGTHENS...A WARNING MAY NEED TO BE ISSUED.

&&

LAT...LON 3549 8030 3550 8018 3547 8016 3546 8011
      3540 8010 3537 8005 3536 8007 3526 8010
      3516 8006 3513 8008 3511 8006 3498 8030
      3520 8028 3517 8032 3518 8037 3516 8041
      3518 8050
TIME...MOT...LOC 0722Z 222DEG 38KT 3506 8046

VINCENT

Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:57 AM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:11 AM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:36 AM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 15, 4:49 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 14, 9:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	33 min
Apr 15, 3:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	37 min
Apr 15, 3:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Stanly	57 min
Apr 15, 3:57 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	33 min
Apr 15, 4:00 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth and 15 more	29 hr
Apr 15, 4:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	34 min
Apr 15, 4:36 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	39 min
Apr 15, 4:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	3 hr
Apr 15, 5:11 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore, Richmond	49 min
Apr 15, 5:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	35 min
Apr 15, 6:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee	28 min
Apr 15, 6:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	28 min
Apr 15, 7:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	53 min
Apr 15, 8:08 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	67 min
Apr 15, 9:02 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	28 min
Apr 15, 2:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	51 min
Apr 15, 3:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Granville and 9 more	93 min
Apr 15, 4:02 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth and 19 more	24 hr
Apr 15, 5:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke and 10 more	83 min
Apr 15, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Sampson and 2 more	84 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2014 Every special weather statement in 2014

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.