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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 5, 20147 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 5, 2014, 1:13 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 5, 2014, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2014, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 33 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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: 890 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 892 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.9

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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 5, 11:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 11:59 AM EDT, 1 hour 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 5, 12:59 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 5, 1:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
113 PM EDT THU JUN 5 2014

NCZ011-026>028-040>043-078-051815-
HALIFAX-WAKE-FRANKLIN-NASH-CHATHAM-WAYNE-WILSON-EDGECOMBE-JOHNSTON-
113 PM EDT THU JUN 5 2014

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
THIS AFTERNOON...AND WILL AFFECT HALIFAX...WAKE... FRANKLIN...
NASH...EASTERN CHATHAM...NORTHEASTERN WAYNE...WILSON... EDGECOMBE
AND JOHNSTON COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM EDT...

AT 108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS THE
AREA...ESPECIALLY BETWEEN RALEIGH AND ROCKY MOUNT. THEY WERE MOVING
EAST AT 20 MPH.

SMALL HAIL AND ISOLATED WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
RALEIGH...CARY...ROCKY MOUNT...ROANOKE RAPIDS...TARBORO...
SMITHFIELD...NASHVILLE...LOUISBURG...HALIFAX AND WILSON.

LAT...LON 3600 7741 3582 7735 3558 7781 3545 7784
      3536 7856 3552 7869 3558 7890 3552 7897
      3564 7912 3587 7917 3587 7883 3597 7871
      3607 7875 3602 7855 3618 7850 3626 7827
      3620 7801 3636 7791 3644 7763 3611 7723
TIME...MOT...LOC 1708Z 278DEG 17KT 3579 7830

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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 4, 11:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville	42 min
Jun 5, 1:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	22 min
Jun 5, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	56 min
Jun 5, 3:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	55 min
Jun 5, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	62 min
Jun 5, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	55 min
Jun 5, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	67 min
Jun 5, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	49 min
Jun 5, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wilson	44 min
Jun 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	36 min
Jun 5, 5:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson	3 hr
Jun 5, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	33 min
Jun 5, 6:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	17 min
Jun 5, 6:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	50 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.