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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jan 4, 2015, 1:50 PM EST for Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 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
- Jan 4, 2015, 1:50 PM EST (18:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 4, 2015, 2:15 PM EST
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 134 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 126 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
- 474 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>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 Jan 4, 11:57 AM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 4, 11:57 AM EST, 1 hour 53 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1024 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 NCZ027-028-042-043-077-078-085-086-088-089-051530- NASH-EDGECOMBE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-HARNETT-WAYNE-SCOTLAND-HOKE- CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 1024 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. A LINE OF HEAVY SHOWERS WILL PROGRESS EASTWARD THROUGH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON...IN ADVANCE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. AN ISOLATED STORM MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH A PRIMARY THREAT OF DAMAGING WINDS. CHANCES FOR AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM WILL BE GREATEST ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 95 CORRIDOR BETWEEN 1 PM THIS AFTERNOON AND 7 PM THIS EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL BRING BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES TO THE AREA BY MIDWEEK. WIND CHILL VALUES THURSDAY MORNING WILL FALL INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ007>011-021>026-038>041-073>076-083-084-051530- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE-STANLY- MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-ANSON-RICHMOND- 1024 AM EST SUN JAN 4 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. AN ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL BRING BITTERLY COLD TEMPERATURES TO THE AREA BY MIDWEEK. WIND CHILL VALUES THURSDAY MORNING WILL FALL INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS. VINCENT
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 4, 11:18 AM EST, 2 hours 32 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
150 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
NCZ083-084-041915-
RICHMOND-ANSON-
150 PM EST SUN JAN 4 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF RICHMOND AND
SOUTHEASTERN ANSON COUNTIES UNTIL 215 PM EST...
AT 150 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES WEST OF ROCKINGHAM...MOVING EAST AT 55
MPH.
PEA SIZED HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROCKINGHAM...WADESBORO...HAMLET...HOFFMAN...ELLERBE...DOBBINS
HEIGHTS...LILESVILLE...MORVEN...MCFARLAN AND SANDHILLS GAME LAND.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS
40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND
TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR
OBJECTS.
&&
LAT...LON 3496 8008 3514 7959 3512 7957 3507 7958
3506 7949 3504 7946 3502 7952 3499 7957
3494 7959 3493 7957 3491 7956 3485 7963
3483 7962 3482 7987 3481 7993 3481 7997
TIME...MOT...LOC 1850Z 248DEG 50KT 3491 7991
VINCENTThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 9:32 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 21 more | 9 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Harnett, Lee and 3 more | 117 min |
| Jan 4, 2:18 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Moore | 27 min |
| Jan 4, 2:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke | 36 min |
| Jan 4, 2:49 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 26 min |
| Jan 4, 2:54 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 66 min |
| Jan 4, 3:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 37 min |
| Jan 4, 3:13 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 47 min |
| Jan 4, 3:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 38 min |
| Jan 4, 3:43 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Nash | 47 min |
| Jan 4, 3:58 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 47 min |
| Jan 4, 4:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 55 min |
| Jan 4, 4:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe | 25 min |
| Jan 4, 4:46 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 34 min |
| Jan 4, 4:54 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 17 min |
| Jan 4, 5:24 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 21 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.