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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 213, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 24, 2022Davidson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2022, 4:24 PM EDT for Davidson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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 24, 2022, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jul 24, 2022, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

County Davidson County, NC

The radar

The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 322 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2022-07-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1124 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 2022-07-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 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
1124 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 24, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before
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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:53 PM EDT, 31 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 10:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson51 min
Jul 23, 11:13 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHGuilford47 min
Jul 23, 11:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph39 min
Jul 23, 11:37 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRAHGuilford68 min
Jul 24, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWake37 min
Jul 24, 4:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHFranklin51 min
Jul 24, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Wake46 min
Jul 24, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake41 min
Jul 24, 5:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHarnett58 min
Jul 24, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Granville, Wake35 min
Jul 24, 6:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett, Lee, Moore42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 2022Every severe thunderstorm 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.