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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 2022, 2:54 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 51 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
- May 1, 2022, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 2022, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Davidson County, NC, Forsyth County, NC, Guilford County, NC, Randolph County, NC
The radar
The Roanoke radar (KFCX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:53 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 20 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 715 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 1, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 1:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 144 PM EDT Sun May 1 2022 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>041-043-076-021745- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Wilson-Lee- 144 PM EDT Sun May 1 2022 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 167 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Severe Thunderstorm Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ042-073>075-077-078-083>086-088-089-021745- Johnston-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Harnett-Wayne-Anson-Richmond- Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 144 PM EDT Sun May 1 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. An isolated strong to severe storm is possible this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. There is a low probability for widespread hazardous weather. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 2:46 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 5:16 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Durham, Forsyth, Granville and 6 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford, Randolph | 44 min |
| May 1, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 25 min |
| May 1, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance | 27 min |
| May 1, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 58 min |
| May 1, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 53 min |
| May 1, 4:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 53 min |
| May 1, 4:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance | 65 min |
| May 1, 4:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 48 min |
| May 1, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson | 44 min |
| May 1, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 27 min |
| May 1, 5:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 52 min |
| May 1, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Orange | 45 min |
| May 1, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 62 min |
| May 1, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Wake | 38 min |
| May 1, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 42 min |
| May 1, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Wake | 53 min |
| May 1, 6:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin | 59 min |
| May 1, 6:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 53 min |
| May 1, 6:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Richmond, Scotland | 59 min |
| May 1, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 60 min |
| May 1, 6:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Vance, Warren | 56 min |
| May 1, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville, Person | 40 min |
| May 1, 7:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville, Vance, Warren | 55 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.