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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2019, 2:58 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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
- Jun 5, 2019, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2019, 3:44 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Lee County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 227 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
- 529 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 842 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 Jun 5, 1:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 5, 1:21 PM EDT, 1 hour 37 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 238 PM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-061945- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Johnston-Wilson-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson- Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 238 PM EDT Wed Jun 5 2019 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 330 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Thunderstorms this afternoon into this evening will pose a primary risk of damaging wind gusts, with some hail in the most intense storms. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Thursday through Tuesday. The approach of a slow-moving upper level system interacting with a stationary frontal zone across the region will bring wet and unsettled weather conditions Friday through early next week. The potential for multiple days of moderate to heavy rainfall will result in an increased threat for flash flooding, especially west of the Triangle. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 5, 2:19 PM EDT, 39 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 5, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph | 53 min |
| Jun 5, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance | 56 min |
| Jun 5, 3:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 65 min |
| Jun 5, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 4:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Nash | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 4:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 59 min |
| Jun 5, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren | 52 min |
| Jun 5, 4:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne, Wilson | 45 min |
| Jun 5, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee, Wake | 61 min |
| Jun 5, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Nash | 55 min |
| Jun 5, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Cumberland, Hoke, Scotland | 51 min |
| Jun 5, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe | 16 min |
| Jun 5, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax | 14 min |
| Jun 5, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 44 min |
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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.