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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 155, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 22, 2019Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2019, 11:37 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Halifax County, Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 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: Jul 22, 2019, 11:37 PM EDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2019, 12:45 AM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:38 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 823 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

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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 Jul 22, 8:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 8:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 22, 8:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 13 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 22, 8:51 PM EDT, 2 hours 46 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:52 PM EDT, 2 hours 45 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 22, 8:54 PM EDT, 2 hours 43 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 9:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 11:25 PM EDT, 12 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
Jul 22, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Granville, Vance	60 min
Jul 22, 8:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	46 min
Jul 22, 8:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance	67 min
Jul 22, 8:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	54 min
Jul 22, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Vance, Warren	55 min
Jul 22, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Durham	58 min
Jul 22, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Nash	50 min
Jul 23, 10:08 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	RAH	Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston and 8 more	7 hr
Jul 23, 11:35 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Lee	55 min
Jul 23, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	66 min
Jul 23, 12:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	33 min
Jul 23, 12:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	63 min
Jul 23, 12:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	61 min
Jul 23, 12:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	44 min
Jul 23, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	36 min
Jul 23, 12:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Randolph	2 hr
Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Lee, Moore	77 min
Jul 23, 1:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	60 min
Jul 23, 1:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake	43 min
Jul 23, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee, Moore	64 min
Jul 23, 2:17 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake	2 hr
Jul 23, 2:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	62 min
Jul 23, 2:59 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	31 min
Jul 23, 3:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Hoke, Scotland	65 min
Jul 23, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	52 min
Jul 23, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	65 min
Jul 23, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	82 min
Jul 23, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2019 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2019

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.