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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2022, 12:58 AM EDT for Johnston County, Wayne County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 20, 2022, 12:58 AM EDT (04:58 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2022, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Damage threat
- Considerable
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 70.0 mph
Counties Johnston County, NC, Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1829 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
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 19, 9:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 19, 9:41 PM EDT, 3 hours 17 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 947 PM EDT Thu May 19 2022 NCZ021>023-038-039-210200- Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance-Davidson-Randolph- 947 PM EDT Thu May 19 2022 ...AIR QUALITY ALERT IN EFFECT FROM 9 AM TO 8 PM EDT FRIDAY... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated to scattered severe storms capable of producing large hail and damaging wind gusts will be possible through midnight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Air Quality Alert. High temperatures on Friday and Saturday are expected to warm well into the 90s, with upper 90s possible across southern portions of the forecast area. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. NCZ007>011-024>028-040-041-043-210200- Person-Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Orange-Durham-Franklin-Nash- Edgecombe-Chatham-Wake-Wilson- 947 PM EDT Thu May 19 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Isolated to scattered severe storms capable of producing large hail and damaging wind gusts will be possible through approximately 1 or 2 AM EDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. High temperatures on Friday and Saturday are expected to warm well into the 90s, with upper 90s to near 100 possible across southern portions of the forecast area. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed. NCZ042-073>078-083>086-088-089-210200- Johnston-Stanly-Montgomery-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Anson-Richmond- Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 947 PM EDT Thu May 19 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Tonight. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Friday through Wednesday. High temperatures on Friday and Saturday are expected to warm well into the 90s, with upper 90s to near 100 possible across southern portions of the forecast area. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
In the hours 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 9:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Vance | 52 min |
| May 19, 9:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Guilford | 60 min |
| May 19, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 50 min |
| May 19, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax | 15 min |
| May 19, 10:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 60 min |
| May 19, 10:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Orange | 41 min |
| May 19, 10:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson, Randolph | 38 min |
| May 19, 10:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 46 min |
| May 19, 10:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson | 58 min |
| May 19, 10:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Randolph | 55 min |
| May 19, 10:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 52 min |
| May 19, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Orange, Randolph | 45 min |
| May 19, 11:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange, Randolph, Wake | 48 min |
| May 19, 11:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Warren | 37 min |
| May 20, 12:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake | 53 min |
| May 20, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wake | 43 min |
| May 20, 1:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson | 59 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.