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Hurricane Warning 1006, NWS Raleigh, NC

September 13, 2018Sampson County, Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this hurricane warning at Sep 13, 2018, 5:05 AM EDT for Sampson County, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 13, 2018, 5:05 AM EDT (09:05 UTC)
Expired: Sep 14, 2018, 4:59 PM EDT
In force: 36 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Sampson County, NC, Wayne County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 127 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: 1114 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 28 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this hurricane warning 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 hurricane warning went out at Sep 13, 3:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 13, 3:02 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 13, 1:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	36 min
Sep 13, 1:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	25 min
Sep 13, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	35 min
Sep 13, 2:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	27 min
Sep 13, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	28 min
Sep 13, 2:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	32 min
Sep 13, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	31 min
Sep 13, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	58 min
Sep 13, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	51 min

Nearby

Hurricane Warnings in North Carolina, 2018 Every hurricane warning in 2018

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.