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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 7, 2020Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2020, 5:15 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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: Aug 7, 2020, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2020, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 139 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 963 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 Aug 7, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 4:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 7, 9:59 AM EDT, 7 hours 16 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
959 AM EDT Fri Aug 7 2020

NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-081400-
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-
959 AM EDT Fri Aug 7 2020

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina.

.DAY ONE...Today and tonight.

Scattered thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. A
few of the thunderstorms will produce locally heavy rain and strong
wind gusts to 45 mph. Urban and small stream flooding may develop
with the strongest storms due to the expected slow movement.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday.

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, Aug 7, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
255 PM EDT Fri Aug 7 2020

NCZ027-043-072000-
Nash NC-Wilson NC-
255 PM EDT Fri Aug 7 2020

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS WILL AFFECT
SOUTHERN NASH AND WILSON COUNTIES UNTIL 400 PM EDT...

At 252 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Wilson, or 16 miles south of Nashville, moving north at 5 mph. Other
storms will develop in these areas through 4 PM.

Wind gusts up to 45 mph will be possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Rocky Mount, Nashville, Wilson, Elm City, Bailey, Sharpsburg, Spring
Hope, Lucama, Middlesex and Black Creek.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

Seek shelter in a nearby building or vehicle. Wind gusts of this
magnitude are capable of producing primarily tree damage.

&&

LAT...LON 3559 7786 3559 7800 3560 7805 3559 7806
      3559 7809 3562 7813 3571 7816 3573 7819
      3573 7821 3575 7822 3575 7823 3577 7825
      3579 7824 3582 7826 3596 7817 3596 7780
      3587 7783 3583 7776 3573 7773
TIME...MOT...LOC 1852Z 182DEG 5KT 3574 7802

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:47 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 3:54 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 4:43 PM EDT, 32 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 7, 5:15 PM EDT, 0 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
Aug 6, 8:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Randolph	65 min
Aug 6, 9:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Forsyth	2 hr
Aug 7, 2:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	65 min
Aug 7, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Johnston	58 min
Aug 7, 3:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	36 min
Aug 7, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	62 min
Aug 7, 5:38 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Nash	67 min
Aug 7, 7:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Wayne	3 hr

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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.