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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2020, 4:04 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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 23, 2020, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2020, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
County Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 131 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
- 2270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 691 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 23, 3:40 PM EDT, 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 3:40 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 319 AM EDT Thu Jul 23 2020 NCZ010-011-026>028-041>043-077-078-088-089-240730- Warren-Halifax-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Wake-Johnston-Wilson-Harnett- Wayne-Cumberland-Sampson- 319 AM EDT Thu Jul 23 2020 ...HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Heat Advisory. A few thunderstorms may approach severe limits, with damaging wind gusts to near 60 mph the main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ007>009-021>025-038>040-073>076-083>086-240730- Person-Granville-Vance-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance-Orange-Durham- Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Anson-Richmond- Scotland-Hoke- 319 AM EDT Thu Jul 23 2020 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. A few thunderstorms may approach severe limits, with damaging wind gusts to near 60 mph the main threat. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 23, 4:04 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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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 |
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| Jul 23, 3:09 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | RAH | Cumberland, Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Harnett, Johnston and 6 more | 17 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Nash | 63 min |
| Jul 23, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 52 min |
| Jul 23, 3:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford, Randolph | 56 min |
| Jul 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Guilford | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 3:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth | 66 min |
| Jul 23, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 26 min |
| Jul 23, 5:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 5:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 116 min |
| Jul 23, 5:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 6:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 6:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 77 min |
| Jul 23, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 50 min |
| Jul 23, 7:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Harnett | 4 hr |
| Jul 23, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 17 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.