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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 6, 2018Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Nov 6, 2018, 4:13 PM EST for Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 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: Nov 6, 2018, 4:13 PM EST (21:13 UTC)
Expired: Nov 6, 2018, 5:00 PM EST
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Wayne County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 349 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 408 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 452 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.7

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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 Nov 6, 3:07 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 3:07 PM EST, 1 hour 6 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 6, 3:50 PM EST, 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 6, 11:21 AM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE Raleigh NC
1121 AM EST TUE NOV 6 2018

NCZ007>009-021>025-038>040-073>075-083-084-061715-
Guilford-Anson-Durham-Alamance-Davidson-Moore-Montgomery-Granville-
Stanly-Richmond-Chatham-Vance-Forsyth-Randolph-Person-Orange-
1121 AM EST TUE NOV 6 2018

...A line of gusty rain showers will affect portions of Guilford...
Anson...Durham...Alamance...Davidson...Moore...Montgomery...
Granville...Stanly...Richmond...Chatham...Vance...Forsyth...
Randolph...Person and Orange Counties Until 1215 PM EST...

At 1115 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
LINE OF gusty rain showers along a line extending from Semora to
NEAR Harrisburg...AND MOVING east AT 45 MPH.

Wind gusts up to 40 mph WILL BE POSSIBLE in the aforementioned
counties as these showers move through.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

For your safety, you should move indoors while and until this line
of rain showers moves through.  Given the wet soils, it's possible
that even wind gusts to 40 mph could blow down a few trees.

&&

LAT...LON 3550 8030 3551 8018 3558 8021 3568 8033
      3572 8033 3574 8045 3626 8003 3624 7916
      3652 7914 3654 7841 3513 7978 3515 8028
      3520 8028 3516 8044 3518 8051
TIME...MOT...LOC 1615Z 267DEG 38KT 3651 7916 3531 8063

Special weather statement, Nov 6, 12:26 PM EST, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 6, 1:44 PM EST, 2 hours 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 6, 2:56 PM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Nov 6, 4:13 PM EST, 0 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
Nov 6, 4:36 AM EST	Dense Fog Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth and 14 more	115 min
Nov 6, 11:21 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Granville, Guilford, Montgomery and 4 more	54 min
Nov 6, 12:26 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Lee and 9 more	64 min
Nov 6, 1:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Granville and 14 more	61 min
Nov 6, 2:56 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Lee, Scotland	64 min
Nov 6, 5:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	43 min

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Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2018 Every special weather statement 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.