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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 163, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 13, 2015Alamance County, Orange County, Person County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 2015, 8:40 PM EDT for Alamance County, Orange County, Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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: Jul 13, 2015, 8:40 PM EDT (00:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 2015, 9:45 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Alamance County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:42 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 13, 6:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

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 Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDT, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDT, 39 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
Jul 13, 8:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	70 min
Jul 13, 8:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Stanly	62 min
Jul 13, 8:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Randolph	74 min
Jul 13, 9:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Stanly	67 min
Jul 13, 9:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Orange	72 min
Jul 13, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond	77 min
Jul 13, 9:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Granville, Person	70 min
Jul 13, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	67 min
Jul 13, 9:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	81 min
Jul 13, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond	42 min
Jul 13, 10:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Nash, Vance, Warren	81 min
Jul 13, 11:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Nash, Vance and 2 more	85 min
Jul 13, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.