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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2016, 1:53 AM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 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
- Aug 7, 2016, 1:53 AM EDT (05:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2016, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Guilford County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 14 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
- 344 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Aug 7, 1:20 AM EDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 1:20 AM EDT, 33 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 850 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-080100- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM-WAKE- JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE-ANSON- RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 850 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY INTO MONDAY NIGHT... ESPECIALLY OVER THE PIEDMONT. CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. MANY AREAS SHOULD SEE BETWEEN 1 AND 3 INCHES OF RAINFALL, WITH LOCALIZED FLOODING POSSIBLE. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN MAY OCCUR OVER THE REGION WELL INTO MONDAY, COURTESY OF A VERY SLOW MOVING OR STALLED FRONT ACROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 12:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1245 AM EDT SUN AUG 7 2016
NCZ007-022>025-070600-
GUILFORD NC-PERSON NC-DURHAM NC-ORANGE NC-ALAMANCE NC-
1245 AM EDT SUN AUG 7 2016
...AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT PORTIONS
OF GUILFORD...SOUTHERN PERSON...NORTHWESTERN DURHAM...NORTHERN
ORANGE AND ALAMANCE COUNTIES UNTIL 200 AM EDT...
AT 1240 AM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM NEAR STOKESDALE EAST TO
REIDSVILLE TO NEAR YANCEYVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.
VERY HEAVY RAIN, FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 35
MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS AS THEY MOVE SOUTHEAST. THESE
STORMS WILL INITIALLY IMPACT LOCATIONS NEAR AND NORTH OF INTERSTATE
85 WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS MOVING INTO NORTHERN GUILFORD
AND NORTHERN ALAMANCE COUNTIES.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
SUMMERFIELD...GREENSBORO...UNION RIDGE...BURLINGTON...ROXBORO...
MEBANE...ROUGEMONT...MCLEANSVILLE AND CARR.
LAT...LON 3625 7881 3597 7928 3598 8002 3626 8001
3624 7915 3639 7915 3641 7894
TIME...MOT...LOC 0436Z 333DEG 18KT 3621 7988
BLAESSpecial weather statement, Aug 7, 1:53 AM EDT, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Person | 75 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 12:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 45 min |
| Aug 7, 12:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 42 min |
| Aug 7, 12:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Stanly | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:12 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Orange, Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Wake | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 1:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Johnston, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Moore | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 5:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Sampson | 115 min |
| Aug 7, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond, Scotland | 79 min |
| Aug 7, 5:18 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 117 min |
| Aug 7, 5:33 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Hoke | 3 hr |
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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.