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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 104, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 17, 2024Granville County, Person County, Vance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 2024, 7:27 PM EDT for Granville County, Person County, Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 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
Jul 17, 2024, 7:27 PM EDT (23:27 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2024, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Granville County, NC, Person County, NC, Vance County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:27 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 119 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 365 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, Roanoke, VA at 12:00Z on 2024-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 5 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
365 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
7 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
Jul 16, 8:22 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHNash53 min
Jul 17, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHHarnett80 min
Jul 17, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson58 min
Jul 17, 4:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWayne67 min
Jul 17, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHWilson56 min
Jul 17, 5:39 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHSampson36 min
Jul 17, 7:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementRAHFranklin, Granville, Person, Vance, Warren58 min

Nearby

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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.