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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this winter storm watch at Jan 27, 2014, 3:51 AM EST for 16 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Jan 28, 2014, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 27, 2014, 3:51 AM EST (08:51 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 28, 2014, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 27, 2014, 3:17 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Cumberland County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Franklin County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Johnston County, NC, Lee County, NC, Moore County, NC, Nash County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wake County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 175 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
- 1562 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 200 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Jan 27, 3:12 AM EST, 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 3:12 AM EST, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 3:17 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | RAH | Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin and 17 more | 39 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:17 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 69 hr |
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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.