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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 19, 2016Cumberland County, Sampson County, Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 19, 2016, 2:33 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Sampson County, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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 19, 2016, 2:33 PM EDT (18:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2016, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 164 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: 1477 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 970 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 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 19, 2:13 PM EDT, 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 2:13 PM EDT, 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 4:36 AM EDT, 9 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 2:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
233 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2016

NCZ078-085-086-088-089-191930-
SCOTLAND   NC-CUMBERLAND   NC-HOKE   NC-WAYNE   NC-SAMPSON   NC-
233 PM EDT TUE JUL 19 2016

 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS OF
SCOTLAND...CUMBERLAND...SOUTHERN HOKE...SOUTHERN WAYNE AND SAMPSON
COUNTIES UNTIL 330 PM EDT...

AT 233 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A LINE OF STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM NEAR GOLDSBORO TO 6 MILES
SOUTH OF HAMLET. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE
STORMS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FAYETTEVILLE...GOLDSBORO...LAURINBURG...CLINTON...RAEFORD...
MOUNT OLIVE...MAXTON...WALNUT CREEK...HARRELLS AND JEROME.

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.

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

&&

LAT...LON 3485 7850 3483 7890 3495 7903 3483 7919
      3484 7935 3477 7933 3463 7946 3481 7969
      3482 7962 3491 7956 3526 7843 3539 7780
      3518 7783 3515 7790 3519 7802 3518 7817
      3490 7815 3474 7820 3471 7811 3456 7825
TIME...MOT...LOC 1833Z 271DEG 18KT 3537 7792 3479 7971

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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 19, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	62 min
Jul 19, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	51 min
Jul 19, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	42 min
Jul 19, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe	117 min
Jul 19, 6:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	65 min
Jul 19, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	48 min
Jul 19, 6:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	46 min
Jul 19, 6:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	3 hr
Jul 19, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	33 min
Jul 19, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	67 min
Jul 19, 6:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	47 min
Jul 19, 7:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	66 min
Jul 19, 7:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	2 hr
Jul 19, 7:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	56 min
Jul 19, 7:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	38 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.