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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 227, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 26, 2022Johnston County, Nash County, Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2022, 3:46 PM EDT for Johnston County, Nash County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 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 26, 2022, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired: Jul 26, 2022, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Johnston County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 168 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: 1162 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -10 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 25, 7:22 PM EDT, 20 hours 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 7:22 PM EDT, 20 hours 24 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 25, 8:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Hoke, Moore	62 min
Jul 25, 8:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Scotland	48 min
Jul 25, 9:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Lee	60 min
Jul 25, 9:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake	59 min
Jul 25, 10:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake, Wilson	26 min
Jul 26, 11:52 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Nash	38 min
Jul 26, 12:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham	39 min
Jul 26, 12:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery	36 min
Jul 26, 12:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	37 min
Jul 26, 12:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Montgomery, Randolph	50 min
Jul 26, 1:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	42 min
Jul 26, 1:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Randolph	49 min
Jul 26, 1:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	38 min
Jul 26, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Nash	42 min
Jul 26, 1:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	53 min
Jul 26, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Granville, Harnett, Johnston and 4 more	39 min
Jul 26, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Nash	48 min
Jul 26, 2:37 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	91 min
Jul 26, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wilson	45 min
Jul 26, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Wake	45 min
Jul 26, 3:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, Orange, Randolph	58 min
Jul 26, 3:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Nash, Wilson	62 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	40 min
Jul 26, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Moore	61 min
Jul 26, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Guilford	62 min
Jul 26, 6:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	52 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	28 min

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.