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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 20, 2020, 4:33 PM EDT for Anson County, Moore County, Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 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
- Jul 20, 2020, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2020, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
Counties Anson County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 140 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 234 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
- 601 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -87 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1172 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 15 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 3:49 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Edgecombe, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston and 5 more | 17 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:23 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 25 more | 30 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 48 min |
| Jul 20, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 25 min |
| Jul 20, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 77 min |
| Jul 20, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 40 min |
| Jul 20, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 5:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Scotland | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 6:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 6:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 7:45 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wayne | 2 hr |
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.