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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

February 15, 2021Hoke County, Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Feb 15, 2021, 10:40 PM EST for Hoke County, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 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: Feb 15, 2021, 10:40 PM EST (03:40 UTC)
Expired: Feb 15, 2021, 11:30 PM EST
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Hoke County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 134 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: 13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 403 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 78 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 592 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 770 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 Feb 15, 9:25 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 9:25 PM EST, 1 hour 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 15, 10:40 PM EST, 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
Feb 15, 8:02 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	21 days
Feb 15, 8:02 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	19 days
Feb 15, 11:33 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Johnston and 6 more	3 hr
Feb 16, 2:43 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Cumberland	7 hr
Feb 16, 3:57 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	RAH	Alamance, Durham, Forsyth, Granville, Guilford, Orange and 3 more	23 hr
Feb 16, 4:54 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	21 hr
Feb 16, 12:49 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	55 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.