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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 43, NWS Raleigh, NC

April 12, 20246 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 12, 2024, 5:45 PM EDT for 6 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 60 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 12, 2024, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: Apr 12, 2024, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

Counties Cumberland County, NC, Harnett County, NC, Hoke County, NC, Moore County, NC, Richmond County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 945 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 217 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 12, 3:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 12, 3:34 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 12, 1:21 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Apr 12, 1:17 PM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 4:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Special weather statement, Apr 12, 5:22 PM EDT, 23 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
Apr 11, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly	45 min
Apr 11, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	42 min
Apr 11, 8:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond, Stanly	42 min
Apr 11, 8:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	39 min
Apr 11, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Lee, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	47 min
Apr 11, 9:13 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	47 min
Apr 11, 9:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	16 min
Apr 11, 9:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Lee, Moore	55 min
Apr 11, 9:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson	36 min
Apr 11, 9:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange	48 min
Apr 11, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person, Vance	58 min
Apr 11, 10:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	34 min
Apr 12, 12:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Person	23 min
Apr 12, 4:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, Stanly	61 min
Apr 12, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Moore, Scotland	53 min
Apr 12, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	61 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.