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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 10, 2014Person County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 10, 2014, 2:49 PM EDT for Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 11 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: May 10, 2014, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2014, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 11 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Person County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 100 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: 58 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 81 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 May 10, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 10, 1:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 10, 4:22 AM EDT, 10 hours 27 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
422 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-110830-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-
ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-
JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-
RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
422 AM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

ANY STRONG STORM THAT DEVELOPS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THIS EVENING
WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

THERE IS THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE IN THE WEEK
AS LOW PRESSURE AND A COLD FRONT APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND
WEST.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME UNTIL POSSIBLY
LATE IN THE WEEK.

DJF/KCP

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 10, 2:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
249 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

NCZ007-008-101900-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-
249 PM EDT SAT MAY 10 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN PERSON
AND NORTHWESTERN GRANVILLE COUNTIES UNTIL 300 PM EDT...

AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER VIRGILINA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

HAIL UP TO THE SIZE OF DIMES AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE
POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BETHEL HILL AND MAYO RESERVOIR.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DONT WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE FIRST LIGHTNING FLASH BEFORE HEADING TO
SAFETY. MOVE INDOORS AT THE FIRST SIGN OF THREATENING SKIES OR THE
FIRST SOUND OF THUNDER. DEADLY LIGHTNING STRIKES CAN OCCUR WELL AHEAD
OF AN APPROACHING STORM...PRIOR TO THE ARRIVAL OF RAIN AND WIND. MAKE
SURE THAT LIGHTNING IS WELL AWAY FROM YOUR LOCATION BEFORE RESUMING
OUTDOOR ACTIVITY.

&&

LAT...LON 3654 7863 3646 7885 3654 7892
TIME...MOT...LOC 1848Z 238DEG 35KT 3654 7883

GIH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	62 min
May 9, 9:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	61 min
May 10, 3:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph and 1 more	57 min
May 10, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	33 min
May 10, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	26 min
May 10, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	45 min
May 10, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	53 min
May 10, 5:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	59 min
May 10, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	30 min
May 10, 5:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	23 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.