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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 27, 2014Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jun 27, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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, 2014, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2014, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Halifax County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:59 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, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 429 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -79 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 32 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, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 6:00 AM EDT, 10 hours before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
600 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2014

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-281000-
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-
600 AM EDT FRI JUN 27 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS MAY RESULT IN HEAVY RAIN AND
LOCALIZED FLOODING...PARTICULARLY WHEN COVERAGE WILL BE GREATEST
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. IN ADDITION...A FEW STORMS MAY
PRODUCE STRONG TO MARGINALLY SEVERE DOWNBURST WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS AGAIN SATURDAY
THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING...WITH A CONTINUED THREAT OF HEAVY RAIN
AND LOCALIZED FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 2:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 4:00 PM 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
Jun 27, 12:58 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	62 min
Jun 27, 3:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash	3 hr
Jun 27, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	54 min
Jun 27, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	52 min
Jun 27, 4:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wake	34 min
Jun 27, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	66 min
Jun 27, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	41 min
Jun 27, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	28 min
Jun 27, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	46 min
Jun 27, 5:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Richmond	115 min
Jun 27, 5:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	50 min
Jun 27, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson	2 hr
Jun 27, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Scotland	2 hr
Jun 27, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Stanly	56 min
Jun 27, 7:50 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Richmond	115 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.