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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 7, 2016, 8:33 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 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
- Jul 7, 2016, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 7, 2016, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Edgecombe County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 134 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
- 2952 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 979 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Jul 7, 8:28 PM EDT, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 7, 8:28 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 418 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 NCZ011-026>028-041>043-075>078-083>086-088-089-082030- HALIFAX-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-MOORE-LEE- HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 418 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 349 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND WESTERN PIEDMONT THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND POSSIBLY ORGANIZE INTO A LINE AS THEY TRACK EASTWARD THROUGH THE TRIANGLE AND INTO THE COASTAL PLAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 1 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON FRIDAY...PRIMARILY FROM THE TRIANGLE SOUTHWARD INTO THE SANDHILLS AND EASTWARD INTO THE COASTAL PLAIN. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ007>010-021>025-038>040-073-074-082030- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE-ORANGE- DURHAM-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-STANLY-MONTGOMERY- 418 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE FOOTHILLS AND WESTERN PIEDMONT THIS AFTERNOON AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND POSSIBLY ORGANIZE INTO A LINE AS THEY TRACK EASTWARD THROUGH THE TRIANGLE AND INTO THE COASTAL PLAIN LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...PRIMARILY ALONG AND EAST OF THE HIGHWAY 1 CORRIDOR. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. HEAT INDICES OF 100 TO 105 DEGREES ARE LIKELY DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS ON FRIDAY...PRIMARILY FROM THE TRIANGLE SOUTHWARD INTO THE SANDHILLS AND EASTWARD INTO THE COASTAL PLAIN. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 7, 7:20 PM EDT, 1 hour 13 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
720 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0715 PM TSTM WND GST POPE AFB 35.17N 79.01W
07/07/2016 M58 MPH CUMBERLAND NC ASOS
REPORTED AT POPE AIR FORCE BASE.
&&
RTELocal storm report, Jul 7, 7:50 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
750 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0439 PM TSTM WND DMG DUNN 35.31N 78.62W
07/07/2016 HARNETT NC PUBLIC
MULTIPLE TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN IN THE
DUNN AREA.
&&
NWS RALEIGH NC
IRIS SYSTEMSpecial weather statement, Jul 7, 7:58 PM EDT, 35 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
758 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016
NCZ008>011-025>027-041-080115-
WARREN NC-WAKE NC-HALIFAX NC-DURHAM NC-VANCE NC-NASH NC-
FRANKLIN NC-GRANVILLE NC-
758 PM EDT THU JUL 7 2016
...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF WARREN...
NORTHEASTERN WAKE...NORTHWESTERN HALIFAX...NORTHERN DURHAM...VANCE...
NORTHERN NASH...FRANKLIN AND SOUTHERN GRANVILLE COUNTIES UNTIL 915 PM
EDT...
AT 758 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR BUTNER TO NEAR WAKE
FOREST TO NEAR ZEBULON. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 30 MPH.
WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS.
HEAVY RAIN AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE
WITH THESE STORMS.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HENDERSON...OXFORD...CREEDMOOR...LOUISBURG...WARRENTON...HALIFAX...
WAKE FOREST...BUTNER...ZEBULON AND FRANKLINTON.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS
50 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN SMALL OR WEAKENED TREES AND
BLOWING AROUND TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER
LIGHT OUTDOOR OBJECTS.
&&
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR
CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
LAT...LON 3651 7790 3636 7757 3634 7759 3631 7756
3631 7749 3629 7744 3572 7845 3592 7854
3617 7896 3624 7885 3624 7880 3627 7880
3652 7836 3653 7791
TIME...MOT...LOC 2358Z 248DEG 25KT 3616 7882 3595 7846 3582 7840
77Local storm report, Jul 7, 8:16 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 7, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 35 min |
| Jul 8, 4:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 42 min |
| Jul 8, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 37 min |
| Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville, Person, Vance | 75 min |
| Jul 8, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 6:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Orange | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 7:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson | 57 min |
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Vance and 2 more | 70 min |
| Jul 8, 7:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Forsyth | 33 min |
| Jul 8, 7:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Forsyth | 59 min |
| Jul 8, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 66 min |
| Jul 8, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Orange | 78 min |
| Jul 8, 7:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 77 min |
| Jul 8, 7:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 48 min |
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Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2016Every 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.