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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 196, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 9, 2022Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 2022, 11:24 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 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 9, 2022, 11:24 PM EDT (03:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 9, 2022, 11:58 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Tornado
Possible
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:26 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.4 hours before the alert went out and 138 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2022-07-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1348 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 2022-07-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.6

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 9, 8:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHAnson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond109 min
Jul 9, 9:12 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHRichmond, Scotland79 min
Jul 9, 10:09 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHCumberland, Hoke, Johnston, Sampson, Wayne3 hr
Jul 9, 10:50 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatRAHCumberland85 min
Jul 9, 11:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson43 min
Jul 10, 6:54 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningRAHJohnston14 hr
Jul 10, 9:13 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningRAHJohnston23 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.