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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 19, 2015Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Apr 19, 2015, 6:49 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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: Apr 19, 2015, 6:49 PM EDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Apr 19, 2015, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 126 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 52 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 156 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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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 Apr 19, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 19, 5:09 PM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 19, 4:53 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
453 PM EDT SUN APR 19 2015

NCZ075-192145-
MOORE NC-
453 PM EDT SUN APR 19 2015

...A HEAVY SHOWER WITH STRONG WINDS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
MOORE COUNTY UNTIL 545 PM EDT...

AT 450 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
HEAVY SHOWER 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF PINEHURST...OR 11 MILES WEST OF
SOUTHERN PINES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
CARTHAGE...PINEHURST...WHISPERING PINES...FOXFIRE...TAYLORTOWN...
CAMERON...EAGLE SPRINGS...GLENDON AND SEVEN LAKES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED WEAK ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. IF THE
STORM INTENSIFIES AND ROTATION STRENGTHENS...A WARNING MAY NEED TO BE
ISSUED.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3518 7963 3519 7966 3524 7967 3526 7970
      3527 7970 3552 7944 3552 7935 3550 7934
      3548 7936 3544 7933 3543 7933 3540 7929
      3535 7927 3533 7923 3516 7961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2050Z 228DEG 16KT 3523 7961

MWS

Special weather statement, Apr 19, 6:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
649 PM EDT SUN APR 19 2015

NCZ084-085-192330-
RICHMOND NC-SCOTLAND NC-
649 PM EDT SUN APR 19 2015

...A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF
SOUTHEASTERN RICHMOND AND NORTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM
EDT...

AT 648 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAVISTOWN...OR 9 MILES
NORTH OF BENNETTSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOFFMAN...GIBSON...SANDHILLS GAME LAND...CAMP MACKALL AND LAUREL
HILL.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED WEAK ROTATION WITH THIS STORM. IF THE
STORM INTENSIFIES AND ROTATION STRENGTHENS...A WARNING MAY NEED TO BE
ISSUED.

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND
TV STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

&&

LAT...LON 3480 7968 3481 7972 3510 7958 3508 7958
      3507 7957 3506 7948 3499 7939 3495 7936
      3474 7959
TIME...MOT...LOC 2248Z 207DEG 24KT 3476 7965

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 18, 10:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	56 min
Apr 19, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	52 min
Apr 19, 6:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Moore and 4 more	4 hr
Apr 19, 7:23 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	3 hr
Apr 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Scotland	56 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2015 Every special weather statement 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.