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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 6, 20224 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2022, 8:10 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 6, 2022, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired: Jul 6, 2022, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Granville County, NC, Person County, NC, Vance County, NC, Warren County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 6, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 1745 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1017 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 18 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 6, 7:47 PM EDT, 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 7:47 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 6, 8:04 PM EDT, 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:03 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:05 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:10 PM EDT, 1 hour before

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Local storm report, Jul 6, 7:21 PM EDT, 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:37 PM EDT, 33 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 6, 7:45 PM EDT, 25 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
Jul 6, 8:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	34 min
Jul 6, 8:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	60 min
Jul 6, 8:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	53 min
Jul 6, 8:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	43 min
Jul 6, 8:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance	58 min
Jul 6, 8:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	42 min
Jul 6, 8:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Richmond	49 min
Jul 6, 8:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	47 min
Jul 6, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Warren	62 min
Jul 6, 9:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	43 min
Jul 6, 9:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	36 min
Jul 6, 9:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	31 min
Jul 6, 9:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	54 min
Jul 6, 10:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	59 min
Jul 6, 10:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	37 min
Jul 6, 10:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	23 min
Jul 6, 10:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson	45 min
Jul 6, 11:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	40 min
Jul 6, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	33 min
Jul 7, 3:41 AM EDT	Heat Advisory	RAH	Alamance, Anson, Chatham, Cumberland, Davidson, Durham and 22 more	15 hr
Jul 7, 8:57 AM EDT	Excessive Heat Warning	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee and 1 more	10 hr
Jul 7, 2:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	70 min
Jul 7, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Randolph	82 min
Jul 7, 3:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Orange	41 min
Jul 7, 3:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	46 min
Jul 7, 4:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	36 min
Jul 7, 4:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Stanly	99 min
Jul 7, 4:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	48 min
Jul 7, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	37 min
Jul 7, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	35 min
Jul 7, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	35 min
Jul 7, 5:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	48 min
Jul 7, 5:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	24 min
Jul 7, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	33 min
Jul 7, 6:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	39 min
Jul 7, 6:22 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Durham, Johnston, Wake, Wilson	3 hr
Jul 7, 6:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	53 min
Jul 7, 6:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	47 min
Jul 7, 6:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland	26 min
Jul 7, 6:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Wake	48 min
Jul 7, 6:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	26 min
Jul 7, 6:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	78 min
Jul 7, 6:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Scotland	83 min
Jul 7, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wake	52 min
Jul 7, 7:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash, Wilson	17 min
Jul 7, 7:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wilson	39 min
Jul 7, 7:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	56 min
Jul 7, 7:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Bladen	24 min
Jul 7, 7:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	37 min

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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.