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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Raleigh, NC

January 9, 20244 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2024, 7:24 PM EST for 4 counties in 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: Jan 9, 2024, 7:24 PM EST (00:24 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2024, 8:12 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Tornado: Possible
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Halifax County, NC, Nash County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 71 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:28 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
Jan 9, 1:46 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 176 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 79 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1067 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1216 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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 Jan 9, 6:45 PM EST, 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 6:45 PM EST, 39 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 6:55 PM EST, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 9, 5:48 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
548 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0443 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     3 NNW Stantonsburg      35.64N 77.84W
01/09/2024                   Wilson             NC   911 Call Center

            Tree down at 5352 NC Highway 58 S.

&&

JD

Local storm report, Jan 9, 5:50 PM EST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
550 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0301 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     1 SSW Altamahaw         36.17N 79.51W
01/09/2024                   Alamance           NC   Utility Company

            Fallen trees on power lines.

&&

JRC

Local storm report, Jan 9, 5:59 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
559 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0549 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     1 NNW Rdu International 35.88N 78.79W
01/09/2024  M69 MPH          Wake               NC   ASOS

&&

JD

Local storm report, Jan 9, 6:23 PM EST, 1 hour 1 minute before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
623 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0554 PM     Tstm Wnd Gst     4 ENE Hope Mills        34.99N 78.88W
01/09/2024  M62 MPH          Cumberland         NC   Official NWS Obs

            KFAY ASOS.

&&

Local storm report, Jan 9, 6:28 PM EST, 56 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Raleigh NC
628 PM EST Tue Jan 9 2024

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0453 PM     Tstm Wnd Dmg     3 W Kingsboro           35.90N 77.73W
01/09/2024                   Edgecombe          NC   911 Call Center

            Tree on power lines and power pole snapped
            in half at Nobles Mill Pond Rd and Jackson
            Walk.

&&

JD

Local storm report, Jan 9, 6:59 PM EST, 25 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 7:12 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham	43 hr
Jan 9, 7:35 PM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Davidson, Davie	61 hr
Jan 10, 12:48 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee	10 hr
Jan 10, 4:55 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Johnston	18 hr
Jan 10, 10:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	RAH	Johnston	36 hr

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.