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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 16, 2025Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Mar 16, 2025, 3:08 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 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: Mar 16, 2025, 3:08 PM EDT (19:08 UTC)
Expired: Mar 16, 2025, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Hail: 0.00 in
Wind: 50

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 128 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: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 327 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Mar 16, 2:12 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 16, 2:12 PM EDT, 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 16, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Mar 16, 1:51 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:16 PM EDT, 52 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:17 PM EDT, 51 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 16, 2:18 PM EDT, 50 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 3:06 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Mar 16, 3:08 PM EDT, 0 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
Mar 16, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph, Richmond and 2 more	45 min
Mar 16, 9:34 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Stanly	26 min
Mar 16, 10:04 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Hoke, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph and 2 more	41 min
Mar 16, 10:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Harnett, Hoke, Lee, Montgomery, Moore and 3 more	50 min
Mar 16, 11:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett and 6 more	57 min
Mar 16, 11:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	48 min
Mar 16, 11:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Durham, Franklin, Granville, Harnett, Johnston and 3 more	4 hr
Mar 16, 12:03 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance, Wake, Warren	57 min
Mar 16, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Sampson, Wayne	66 min
Mar 16, 12:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Franklin, Halifax, Johnston, Nash, Warren, Wilson	4 hr
Mar 16, 12:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Warren	24 min
Mar 16, 1:51 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Johnston, Wilson	39 min
Mar 16, 2:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	3 hr
Mar 16, 2:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wake	3 hr
Mar 16, 2:58 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Sampson, Wayne, Wilson	3 hr
Mar 16, 3:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wake	39 min
Mar 16, 4:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Hoke	42 min
Mar 16, 4:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Sampson	44 min
Mar 16, 4:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston	93 min
Mar 16, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Wayne	37 min
Mar 16, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Edgecombe, Franklin, Halifax, Nash, Warren, Wilson	3 hr
Mar 16, 5:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Edgecombe, Halifax	47 min
Mar 16, 6:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	48 min
Mar 16, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Stanly	49 min
Mar 16, 6:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	60 min
Mar 16, 7:11 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	34 min
Mar 16, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	43 min
Mar 16, 7:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond	46 min
Mar 16, 7:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wake	32 min
Mar 16, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Anson	48 min
Mar 16, 7:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Richmond	51 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.