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Special Weather Statement, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2026, 4:28 PM EDT for Anson County, Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 62 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 6, 2026, 4:28 PM EDT (20:28 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2026, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
Counties Anson County, NC, Stanly County, NC
The radar
The Columbia radar (KCAE), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 249 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 798 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 Aug 5, 7:45 PM EDT, 20 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 7:45 PM EDT, 20 hours 43 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:18 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Stanly | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 1:37 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Davidson | 38 min |
| Aug 6, 1:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Montgomery, Randolph, Stanly | 48 min |
| Aug 6, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | RAH | Anson, Stanly | 115 min |
| Aug 6, 5:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Chatham, Montgomery, Randolph | 62 min |
| Aug 6, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Davidson, Montgomery, Moore, Randolph | 42 min |
| Aug 6, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Orange, Randolph | 57 min |
| Aug 6, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Orange, Randolph | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 7:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Durham | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | RAH | Granville | 46 min |
| Aug 6, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Granville, Orange, Wake | 40 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.