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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 106, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 25, 2015Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2015, 10:12 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 25, 2015, 10:12 PM EDT (02:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2015, 11:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 136 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: 1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1943 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 25, 9:55 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 9:55 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 25, 4:08 PM EDT, 6 hours 4 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
408 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2015

NCZ021>025-038>042-073>078-083>086-088-089-262015-
FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE-DURHAM-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-
WAKE-JOHNSTON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-
RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON-
408 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WITH
DAMAGING WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND LOCALIZED FLOODING THE MOST
LIKELY THREATS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ABOVE NORMAL HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY. STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...
MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

NCZ007>011-026>028-043-262015-
PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-WILSON-
408 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT.

THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATE TONIGHT
WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL THE PRIMARY THREATS...BUT AN
ISOLATED TORNADO ALSO POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY.

ABOVE NORMAL HEAT AND HUMIDITY WILL CONTINUE ON FRIDAY. STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WILL AGAIN BE POSSIBLE BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...
MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:30 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 25, 8:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:52 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 25, 9:59 PM EDT, 13 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 25, 8:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Orange, Wake	61 min
Jun 25, 8:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	63 min
Jun 25, 9:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	68 min
Jun 25, 9:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	61 min
Jun 25, 10:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	52 min
Jun 25, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	44 min
Jun 26, 1:16 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	59 min
Jun 26, 1:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	59 min
Jun 26, 2:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	58 min
Jun 26, 2:33 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	42 min
Jun 26, 3:13 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Halifax	92 min
Jun 26, 3:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	62 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke	52 min
Jun 26, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	49 min
Jun 26, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	39 min
Jun 26, 4:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	67 min
Jun 26, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	65 min
Jun 26, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	60 min
Jun 26, 4:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	57 min
Jun 26, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	52 min
Jun 26, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Randolph	25 min
Jun 26, 5:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	43 min
Jun 26, 5:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	55 min
Jun 26, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	51 min
Jun 26, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	29 min
Jun 26, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	55 min
Jun 26, 5:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Randolph	35 min
Jun 26, 6:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	67 min
Jun 26, 6:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	55 min
Jun 26, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore	55 min
Jun 26, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	61 min
Jun 26, 7:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	17 min
Jun 26, 7:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2015 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.