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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 28, 20227 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this freeze warning at Mar 28, 2022, 3:13 PM EDT for 7 counties in North Carolina. It took effect at Mar 29, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 28, 2022, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 29, 2022, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 29, 2022, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Edgecombe County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Sampson County, NC, Scotland County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 156 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-03-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 2022-03-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 108 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
84 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 9:34 AM EDTRed Flag WarningRAHEdgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Halifax, Nash, Vance and 2 more9 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in North Carolina, 2022Every freeze warning in 2022

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.