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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 30, 2023, 1:19 PM EDT for Cumberland County, Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 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
- Apr 30, 2023, 1:19 PM EDT (17:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 30, 2023, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.88 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Cumberland County, NC, Hoke County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 417 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 609 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 64 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 286 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 370 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.7
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
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 Apr 30, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 10:58 AM EDT, 2 hours 21 minutes before
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Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Raleigh NC 515 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023 NCZ007-021>024-038-039-073-074-083-010915- Person-Forsyth-Guilford-Alamance-Orange-Davidson-Randolph-Stanly- Montgomery-Anson- 515 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms capable of damaging winds and hail will be possible Sunday morning into early Sunday afternoon with an approaching surface low and cold front. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. NCZ008>011-025>028-040>043-075>078-084>086-088-089-010915- Granville-Vance-Warren-Halifax-Durham-Franklin-Nash-Edgecombe- Chatham-Wake-Johnston-Wilson-Moore-Lee-Harnett-Wayne-Richmond- Scotland-Hoke-Cumberland-Sampson- 515 AM EDT Sun Apr 30 2023 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central North Carolina. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Showers and thunderstorms capable of damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes are possible from Sunday morning into early Sunday evening. The greatest severe potential should be focused along and east of the US-1 corridor. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation may be needed.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 30, 7:46 AM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 12:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Moore | 55 min |
| Apr 30, 6:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Lee, Wake | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 7:46 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Franklin, Halifax | 59 min |
| Apr 30, 12:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 66 min |
| Apr 30, 12:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 2 hr |
| Apr 30, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Harnett | 48 min |
| Apr 30, 1:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson | 38 min |
| Apr 30, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Johnston | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 2:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 47 min |
| Apr 30, 2:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Wake | 45 min |
| Apr 30, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Sampson, Wayne | 53 min |
| Apr 30, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Scotland | 36 min |
| Apr 30, 2:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Franklin, Granville, Wake | 40 min |
| Apr 30, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Halifax, Nash | 52 min |
| Apr 30, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston, Wayne, Wilson | 43 min |
| Apr 30, 3:00 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wilson | 3 hr |
| Apr 30, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson | 57 min |
| Apr 30, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Nash | 21 min |
| Apr 30, 3:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 19 min |
| Apr 30, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 44 min |
| Apr 30, 3:52 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 3 hr |
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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.