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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2022, 8:51 PM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 39 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 6, 2022, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 6, 2022, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Franklin County, NC, Granville County, NC, Nash County, NC, Vance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 59 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 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 6, 2:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1174 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 943 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 403 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.7
- Supercell composite
- 10.1
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 6, 8:10 PM EDT, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 6, 8:10 PM EDT, 41 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 232 PM EDT Fri May 6 2022 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-071845- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance- Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe-Davidson-Randolph-Chatham-Wake- Johnston-Wilson-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson- Richmond-Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 232 PM EDT Fri May 6 2022 ...TORNADO WATCH 187 IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 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. Tornado Watch. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 6, 7:53 PM EDT, 58 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| May 6, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Sampson | 40 min |
| May 6, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham, Johnston, Orange, Wake | 41 min |
| May 6, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson, Wayne, Wilson | 45 min |
| May 6, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Person | 25 min |
| May 6, 8:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 47 min |
| May 6, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Vance, Warren | 46 min |
| May 6, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Guilford | 24 min |
| May 6, 9:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Davidson, Guilford, Randolph | 35 min |
| May 6, 9:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery, Stanly | 46 min |
| May 7, 12:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery | 34 min |
| May 7, 12:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 34 min |
| May 7, 1:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson | 28 min |
| May 7, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Lee | 26 min |
| May 7, 1:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 38 min |
| May 7, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Anson, Richmond | 30 min |
| May 7, 2:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 41 min |
| May 7, 2:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 38 min |
| May 7, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Moore | 43 min |
| May 7, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 34 min |
| May 7, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Sampson | 34 min |
| May 7, 4:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Durham, Orange | 63 min |
| May 7, 4:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Wayne | 83 min |
| May 7, 4:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Wake | 28 min |
| May 7, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 97 min |
| May 7, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wayne | 31 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.