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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2015, 6:41 PM EDT for Hoke County, Richmond County, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 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
- Aug 5, 2015, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2015, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Hoke County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 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, 10.7 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -203 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 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 Aug 5, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:02 AM EDT, 14 hours 39 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 402 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-060815- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 402 AM EDT WED AUG 5 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. AN ISOLATED STRONG TO SEVERE STORM IS POSSIBLE THURSDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE GREATEST THREATS WILL BE FROM STRAIGHT LINE WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:41 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
641 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015
NCZ083>086-088-052330-
SCOTLAND NC-CUMBERLAND NC-RICHMOND NC-ANSON NC-HOKE NC-
641 PM EDT WED AUG 5 2015
...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER ANSON AND RICHMOND
COUNTIES...
AT 637 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG
THUNDERSTORM OVER MORVEN... OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
WADESBORO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ROCKINGHAM... MOVING NORTHEAST AT
10 MPH.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING... GUSTY WIND TO 40 OR 45 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN
WILL OCCUR WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
ROCKINGHAM... MORVEN... DIGGS... HAMLET... AND LILESVILLE.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
TAKE SHELTER INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU CANNOT FIND SHELTER
INDOORS...AN ENCLOSED VEHICLE CAN PROVIDE SAFE SHELTER FROM
LIGHTNING.
&&
LAT...LON 3480 7968 3481 8023 3518 7983 3517 7962
3512 7957 3507 7957 3504 7946 3515 7935
3513 7899 3483 7920 3483 7935 3477 7933
3463 7946
TIME...MOT...LOC 2237Z 235DEG 11KT 3487 7994
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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.