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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 3, 2026Hoke County, Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2026, 5:52 PM EDT for Hoke County, Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 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: Aug 3, 2026, 5:52 PM EDT (21:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2026, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 55

Counties Hoke County, NC, Scotland County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 227 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: 335 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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
Aug 2, 8:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Stanly	45 min
Aug 2, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Cumberland, Franklin, Harnett, Johnston, Nash, Wake	66 min
Aug 2, 8:39 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Franklin, Vance, Warren	51 min
Aug 2, 9:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Granville, Vance, Warren	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	3 hr
Aug 3, 6:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	39 min
Aug 3, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Hoke, Scotland	61 min
Aug 3, 7:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	RAH	Harnett, Johnston, Wilson	65 min
Aug 3, 7:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne, Wilson	43 min
Aug 3, 7:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett, Johnston, Sampson	43 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in North Carolina, 2026 Every special weather statement in 2026

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.