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Heat Advisory 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 4, 2019Cumberland County, Sampson County, Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this heat advisory at Jul 4, 2019, 12:58 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Sampson County, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 4, 2019, 12:58 PM EDT (16:58 UTC)
Expired: Jul 4, 2019, 5:44 PM EDT
In force: 5 hr
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Wayne County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:59 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 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 1829 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 846 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 4, 12:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	25 min
Jul 4, 12:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery, Moore	50 min
Jul 4, 1:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Stanly	66 min
Jul 4, 1:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	42 min
Jul 4, 1:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	67 min
Jul 4, 1:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and 1 more	3 hr
Jul 4, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	57 min
Jul 4, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	67 min
Jul 4, 2:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	64 min
Jul 4, 2:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	60 min
Jul 4, 2:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	35 min
Jul 4, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	54 min
Jul 4, 3:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Orange	29 min
Jul 4, 3:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	56 min
Jul 4, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	54 min
Jul 4, 3:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	60 min
Jul 4, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	54 min
Jul 4, 3:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	51 min
Jul 4, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	62 min
Jul 4, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville	56 min
Jul 4, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	53 min
Jul 4, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	37 min
Jul 4, 3:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	49 min
Jul 4, 4:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	40 min
Jul 4, 4:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	65 min
Jul 4, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	60 min
Jul 4, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	29 min
Jul 4, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Wake	54 min
Jul 4, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	55 min
Jul 4, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	39 min
Jul 4, 4:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland	3 hr
Jul 4, 5:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wake	3 hr
Jul 4, 5:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland	3 hr
Jul 4, 5:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	66 min
Jul 4, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	67 min
Jul 4, 5:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren	53 min
Jul 4, 6:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Halifax, Warren	3 hr
Jul 4, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance	33 min

Nearby

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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.