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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 4, 2022Edgecombe County, Nash County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 4, 2022, 5:11 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 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 4, 2022, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
Expired
May 4, 2022, 5:37 PM EDT
In force
26 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Nash County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:13 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 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 153 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 12:00Z on 2022-05-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 529 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 12:00Z on 2022-05-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 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
529 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
103 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 4, 3:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHJohnston, Wayne, Wilson48 min
May 4, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wayne, Wilson38 min
May 4, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHNash42 min
May 4, 3:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHDavidson67 min
May 4, 4:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWilson60 min
May 4, 4:54 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHEdgecombe66 min
May 4, 6:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAnson, Montgomery, Moore38 min
May 4, 6:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHAnson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond34 min
May 4, 7:25 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHMoore35 min
May 4, 7:57 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHarnett48 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.