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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 2, 2016Alamance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 2, 2016, 2:13 AM EDT for Alamance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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: May 2, 2016, 2:13 AM EDT (06:13 UTC)
Expired: May 2, 2016, 3:15 AM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Alamance County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 35 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: 977 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 992 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 2.7

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The text

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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 May 1, 9:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 1, 9:40 PM EDT, 4 hours 33 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 10:32 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 2, 2:13 AM EDT, 0 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
May 2, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	30 min
May 2, 2:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	28 min
May 2, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	17 min
May 2, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	45 min
May 2, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Scotland	21 min
May 2, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore	32 min
May 2, 3:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	28 min
May 2, 4:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Wake	45 min
May 2, 4:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	42 min
May 2, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Randolph	26 min
May 2, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	37 min
May 2, 4:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	47 min
May 2, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly	57 min
May 2, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Wake	45 min
May 2, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Orange	53 min
May 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	60 min
May 2, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	45 min
May 2, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	35 min
May 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	2 hr
May 2, 5:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance, Warren	44 min
May 2, 5:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	2 hr
May 2, 5:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland and 1 more	63 min
May 2, 5:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	45 min
May 2, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	55 min
May 2, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person	62 min
May 2, 6:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	3 hr
May 2, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	46 min
May 2, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Sampson, Scotland	62 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2016 Every special weather statement in 2016

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.