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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 22, 2016Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2016, 7:13 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

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The facts

Issued: May 22, 2016, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2016, 7:30 PM EDT
In force: 17 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

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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 22, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:25 PM EDT, 3 hours 48 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 22, 5:00 AM EDT, 14 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 22, 7:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
713 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2016

NCZ086-088-222330-
CUMBERLAND   NC-HOKE   NC-
713 PM EDT SUN MAY 22 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN
CUMBERLAND AND SOUTHEASTERN HOKE COUNTIES UNTIL 730 PM EDT...

AT 712 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
RAEFORD...MOVING SOUTH AT 25 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HOPE MILLS AND ROCKFISH.

LAT...LON 3502 7919 3504 7901 3492 7896 3495 7904
      3484 7919
TIME...MOT...LOC 2312Z 348DEG 23KT 3496 7911

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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 21, 8:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	63 min
May 22, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	51 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.