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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 108, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 26, 2015Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2015, 1:31 AM EDT for Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 26, 2015, 1:31 AM EDT (05:31 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2015, 2:30 AM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Halifax County, NC, Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 25, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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: 195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1863 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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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 26, 12:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 12:07 AM EDT, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 12:01 AM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:03 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:30 AM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:32 AM EDT, 59 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 26, 12:38 AM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:16 AM EDT, 15 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, 10:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	48 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, 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

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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.