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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 23, 2024Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Jul 23, 2024, 5:03 PM EDT for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jul 23, 2024, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired: Jul 23, 2024, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Halifax County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 173 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: 73 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 80 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 22, 8:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	39 min
Jul 23, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe	45 min
Jul 23, 3:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	46 min
Jul 23, 3:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	51 min
Jul 23, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	44 min
Jul 23, 3:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	45 min
Jul 23, 3:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin	38 min
Jul 23, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Vance, Warren	60 min
Jul 23, 4:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	57 min
Jul 23, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	41 min
Jul 23, 4:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Durham	37 min
Jul 23, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Forsyth	11 min
Jul 23, 6:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Forsyth	117 min
Jul 23, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke	56 min
Jul 23, 6:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett	66 min
Jul 23, 7:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston	57 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.