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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 15, 2016Anson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2016, 1:13 PM EDT for Anson 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: Jul 15, 2016, 1:13 PM EDT (17:13 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 2016, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Anson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 120 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: 37 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -235 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1647 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -38 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -6 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jul 15, 11:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 15, 11:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 15, 7:25 AM EDT, 5 hours 48 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 15, 1:13 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
113 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

NCZ083-151815-
ANSON   NC-
113 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016

 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF ANSON COUNTY UNTIL
215 PM EDT...

AT 112 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM
NEAR PAGELAND...OR 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF WADESBORO...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WADESBORO...ANSONVILLE...POLKTON...LILESVILLE...MORVEN...PEACHLAND...
MCFARLAN...WHITE STORE AND BLEWETT FALLS LAKE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY BUILDING OR VEHICLE. WIND GUSTS AS HIGH AS
40 MPH ARE CAPABLE OF KNOCKING DOWN TREE LIMBS AND BLOWING AROUND
TRASH CANS...POTTED PLANTS...LAWN FURNITURE AND OTHER LIGHT OUTDOOR
OBJECTS.

LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN WILL QUICKLY REDUCE VISIBILITY AND RESULT IN
PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS. DRIVERS ARE URGED TO SLOW DOWN AND USE
EXTRA CAUTION TO AVOID HYDROPLANING.

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM.
LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE.

&&

LAT...LON 3506 8029 3517 8010 3511 8007 3508 8000
      3512 7995 3512 7992 3507 7991 3504 7988
      3501 7990 3498 7987 3495 7987 3492 7985
      3490 7985 3486 7990 3481 7992 3481 8032
TIME...MOT...LOC 1712Z 240DEG 19KT 3482 8030

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 1:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	56 min
Jul 15, 1:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	66 min
Jul 15, 2:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	59 min
Jul 15, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	58 min
Jul 15, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Hoke, Moore	40 min
Jul 15, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	48 min
Jul 15, 3:25 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Montgomery	3 hr
Jul 15, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	40 min
Jul 15, 3:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	34 min
Jul 15, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	49 min
Jul 15, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	59 min
Jul 15, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	45 min
Jul 15, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Orange, Wake	54 min
Jul 15, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	62 min
Jul 15, 5:02 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Orange	3 hr
Jul 15, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Nash, Wake	67 min
Jul 15, 5:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Wake	55 min
Jul 15, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly	66 min
Jul 15, 5:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wake	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Randolph	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Wake and 1 more	62 min
Jul 15, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Orange	64 min
Jul 15, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	57 min
Jul 15, 6:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Stanly	3 hr
Jul 15, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Wake	31 min
Jul 15, 7:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Orange	3 hr

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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.