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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2018, 5:48 PM EDT for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 12, 2018, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 12, 2018, 6:16 PM EDT
- In force
- 28 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Wayne County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 1751 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 792 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 12, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 3:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 401 PM EDT Sun Aug 12 2018 NCZ008>011-026>028-041>043-077-078-132015- Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Wake-Johnston- Wilson-Harnett-Wayne- 401 PM EDT Sun Aug 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. A few severe thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon through early evening. The main severe weather hazard will be damaging wind gusts 50 to 60 mph. The severe weather threat appears greatest through 10 PM. In addition, torrential downpours will accompany the strongest storms. These downpours may spark isolated flash flooding, mainly over urbanized locations. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Thunderstorms with heavy downpours are expected Monday afternoon and evening. These downpours may cause brief flooding of streets and low lying areas. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ007-021>025-038>040-076-132015- Person-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance-Orange-Durham-Davidson-Randolph- Chatham-Lee- 401 PM EDT Sun Aug 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. A few severe thunderstorms will be possible this afternoon through early evening. The main severe weather hazard will be damaging wind gusts 50 to 60 mph. The severe weather threat appears greatest through 10 PM. In addition, torrential downpours will accompany the strongest storms. These downpours may spark isolated flash flooding, mainly over urbanized locations. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ085-086-088-089-132015- Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 401 PM EDT Sun Aug 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain are expected this afternoon through this evening. These downpours may lead to brief flooding of streets and low lying areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Scattered thunderstorms Monday and Monday night will produce locally heavy rainfall, potentially leading to flash flooding of streets and low lying areas. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ073>075-083-084-132015- Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Anson-Richmond- 401 PM EDT Sun Aug 12 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight. Scattered thunderstorms with heavy rain are expected this afternoon through this evening. These downpours may lead to brief flooding of streets and low lying areas. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 12, 1:09 PM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland | 25 min |
| Aug 11, 8:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 66 min |
| Aug 11, 8:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 24 min |
| Aug 11, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wilson | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 1:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 4:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 55 min |
| Aug 12, 5:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 29 min |
| Aug 12, 5:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 6:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 49 min |
| Aug 12, 6:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 7:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 119 min |
| Aug 12, 7:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 35 min |
| Aug 12, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 89 min |
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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2018Every severe thunderstorm 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.