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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 87, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 27, 20244 counties in North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2024, 3:46 AM EDT for 4 counties in North Carolina. It was in force for 44 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 27, 2024, 3:46 AM EDT (07:46 UTC)
Expired: May 27, 2024, 4:30 AM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 208 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: 441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1192 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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 May 27, 3:08 AM EDT, 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 27, 3:08 AM EDT, 38 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 27, 1:46 AM EDT, 2 hours before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, May 26, 11:36 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 11:46 PM EDT, 4 hours before

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Special weather statement, May 26, 11:59 PM EDT, 3 hours 47 minutes before

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Local storm report, May 27, 12:04 AM EDT, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 12:24 AM EDT, 3 hours 22 minutes before

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Special weather statement, May 27, 3:26 AM EDT, 20 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
May 26, 8:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Alamance, Guilford	56 min
May 26, 9:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford	44 min
May 26, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, Randolph	37 min
May 26, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Guilford, Orange	52 min
May 26, 9:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	38 min
May 26, 9:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Guilford	99 min
May 26, 9:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Granville, Person, Vance	47 min
May 26, 9:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Alamance	107 min
May 26, 9:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Lee, Moore, Orange and 1 more	48 min
May 26, 10:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham, Orange	43 min
May 26, 10:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson, Harnett, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	38 min
May 26, 10:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Warren	65 min
May 26, 10:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Harnett, Johnston, Lee and 2 more	43 min
May 26, 10:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	41 min
May 26, 10:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Moore, Richmond and 1 more	62 min
May 26, 11:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	41 min
May 26, 11:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Sampson, Wake, Wayne	54 min
May 26, 11:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax, Nash	59 min
May 26, 11:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wilson	59 min
May 26, 11:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	50 min
May 26, 11:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Sampson	61 min
May 27, 12:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax, Wilson	66 min
May 27, 3:26 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Hoke, Scotland	64 min
May 27, 4:55 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	65 min
May 27, 7:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Warren	43 min
May 27, 7:37 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	38 min
May 27, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Chatham, Durham, Lee, Wake	45 min
May 27, 8:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Lee, Wake	47 min
May 27, 3:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	58 min
May 27, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	58 min
May 27, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Johnston, Nash, Wake	40 min
May 27, 3:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Halifax	32 min
May 27, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Wilson	39 min
May 27, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	53 min
May 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	34 min
May 27, 4:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	25 min
May 27, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	36 min
May 27, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	24 min
May 27, 5:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Halifax	28 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.