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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2016, 6:55 PM EDT for Halifax County, Warren County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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 13, 2016, 6:55 PM EDT (22:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Halifax County, NC, Warren County, NC
The radar
The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 184 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
- 144 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 830 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -103 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 13, 6:51 AM EDT, 12 hours 4 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 6:51 AM EDT, 12 hours 4 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 255 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016 NCZ042-077-078-083>086-088-089-141900- JOHNSTON-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND- SAMPSON- 255 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAT INDICES WILL EXCEED 100 DEGREES THURSDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE SANDHILLS AND SOUTHEAST COASTAL PLAIN. HEAT INDICES MAY APPROACH OR EXCEED 105 DEGREES FOR SEVERAL HOURS IN SOME AREAS. A HEAT ADVISORY MAY BE NEEDED FOR PORTIONS OF THE AREA THURSDAY AFTERNOON...PRIMARILY IN CUMBERLAND...SAMPSON AND WAYNE COUNTIES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NCZ007>011-021>028-038>041-043-073>076-141900- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE- 255 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. VINCENT
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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 12, 8:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 8:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wilson | 26 min |
| Jul 12, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham, Wake | 29 min |
| Jul 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 5:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham, Orange | 52 min |
| Jul 13, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Richmond | 40 min |
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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.