1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Raleigh, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 12, 12:45 PM EST, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 145 PM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY)...DAYTIME HEATING OF UNSTABLE AIR AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE ALONG A PREFRONTAL TROUGH EXTENDING ACROSS FORECAST AREA WILL PRODUCE SCATTERED SHOWERS AND TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. OTHER STORMS DUE DIFFERENTIAL HEATING ALONG EASTERN SLOPES LIKELY TO MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA DUE NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. NO UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT FOR STORMS AND WIND FIELDS WEAK. PRINCIPAL THREAT IS ISOLATED PULSE STORMS WITH POTENTIAL FOR LARGE HAIL AND A POSSIBLE DOWNBURSTS. UNSEASONABLY STRONG (1042 MB)COLD AIR HIGH TO THE NORTH AND 3 MB PRESSURE RISES IN MARYLAND WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH SURFACE COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD THROUGH FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS LINGER THROUGH LATE EVENING AND CLOUDY SKIES TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. BELOW NORMAL DAYTIME HIGH TEMPERATURES FEATURED FOR FRIDAY DUE CLOUDS AND NORTHEAST FLOW. DOMINANCE OF SURFACE AIR HIGH ON LOCAL WEATHER IS SHORT LIVED. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE AXIS IS PROGRESSIVE TAKING SURFACE HIGH SOUTHEASTWARD TO DELMARVA FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND OFFSHORE FRIDAY NIGHT. GIVEN THE ABSENCE OF SOUTHERLY FLOW ABOVE THE LOW LEVEL NORTHEAST FLOW...THINK NWP MODELS HANG ON TO DEEP MEAN MOISTURE TOO LONG. EXPECTING BREAKS IN CLOUDS BY FRIDAY NIGHT AND A PARTLY CLOUDY SATURDAY. RETURN FLOW AHEAD OF NEXT COLD FRONT IS LIMITED. BEST CHANCE OF SHOWERS IS SUNDAY AS FRONT MOVES INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST. CURRENT MENTION OF POPS FOR SATURDAY AFTERNOON THOUGHT TO BE TOO SOON. && .LONG TERM (SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)....COLD FRONT EXITING THE REGION SUNDAY NIGHT AS UPPER LEVEL TROUGH SWINGS THROUGH. SUNDAY NIGHT LOWS WILL DEPEND ON THE PROGRESSION OF THE FRONT...BUT CURRENTLY HAVE A RANGE FROM 53-60. BEHIND THE FRONT...TEMPS MONDAY WILL BE 4-7 DEGREES COOLER THAN THEY WERE SUNDAY...GENERALLY IN THE MID 70S. LEFT IN A SLIGHT CHANCE OF LINGERING SHOWERS...ESPECIALLY EAST FOR MONDAY...BUT GENERALLY HAD ALL PRECIP OUT OF THE AREA BY TUESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE BUILDS IN WHILE UPPER RIDGE TAKES CONTROL OF PLAINS AND MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FOR MIDWEEK. TEMPS TUESDAY JUST A DEGREE OR TWO BELOW NORMAL. FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY...UNCERTAINTY INCREASES DUE TO DIVERGING MODEL SOLUTIONS. GFS AND DGEX SEEM TO WANT TO PUSH A COLD FRONT THROUGH STARTING WEDNESDAY AND MOSTLY THURSDAY...WITH POPS LINGERING INTO FRIDAY AS THE EXITING SYSTEM IS CONNECTED TO THE NEXT SURFACE WAVE IN THE PLAINS. THE ECMWF...HOWEVER...DEPICTS MORE OF A WARM FRONTAL FEATURE APPROACHING ON WEDNESDAY AND MOVING IN ON THURSDAY...EXTENDING FROM A SURFACE LOW IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. THE DIFFERENCES SEEM TO BE TIED TO THE PROGRESSION OF THE UPPER LOW...WITH THE DGEX AND GFS BEING MUCH FASTER TO MOVE IT EASTWARD WHILE THE ECMWF IS A DAY BEHIND. UKMET SEEMS TO BE SLIGHTLY SLOWER THAN THE GFS/DGEX...BUT ITS HARD TO TELL BY THE END OF ITS RUN. HOWEVER...WITH EITHER SOLUTION...POPS WOULD BE NECESSARY...SO KEPT CHANCE POPS FOR THE NORTHWEST AT THE END OF THE PERIOD...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE POPS ELSEWHERE. && .AVIATION... AS A COLD FRONT MOVES SOUTH ACROSS CENTRAL NC THIS EVENING... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP AND BRIEFLY LOWER BASES TO NEAR 1 KFT FROM SCATTERED TO BROKEN LAYERS OF CUMULUS AT 4 TO 6 KFT AGL. VSBY SHOULD REMAIN UNRESTRICTED EXCEPT LOCALLY BELOW 3 MILES IN RAIN. AS HIGH PRESSURE FROM THE NORTH DRIVES COOL MOIST AIR INTO THE REGION BY 06Z...STRATUS CIGS WILL DEVELOP BETWEEN 1 AND 3 KFT AND LOWER TO BELOW 1 THSD FT AROUND DAYBREAK FRI MORNING. VSBY WILL LOWER TO BETWEEN 3 AND 5 MILES IN FOG AND DRIZZLE. && .RAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SHORT TERM...KK LONG TERM...TDP AVIATION...RFG
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 451 AM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-130900- PERSON-GRANVILLE-VANCE-WARREN-HALIFAX-FORSYTH-GUILFORD-ALAMANCE- ORANGE-DURHAM-FRANKLIN-NASH-EDGECOMBE-DAVIDSON-RANDOLPH-CHATHAM- WAKE-JOHNSTON-WILSON-STANLY-MONTGOMERY-MOORE-LEE-HARNETT-WAYNE- ANSON-RICHMOND-SCOTLAND-HOKE-CUMBERLAND-SAMPSON- 451 AM EDT THU MAY 12 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUE MOVING SOUTH ACROSS THE REGION TONIGHT MAINLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT. THIS FRONT ALONG WITH MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR WILL RESULT IN SCATTERED SHOWERS AND DEVELOPING THIS AFTERNOON AND CONTINUING INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT FROM THESE STORMS WILL LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT... A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA SUNDAY INTO THE EVENING HOURS. A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED AHEAD AND ALONG THE FRONT AS MOVES THROUGH. MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER NETWORK ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS...MAINLY FROM 5PM THROUGH 9PM. RA
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</html>The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:07 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
The roof was peeled off of a flat-roofed building. Limbs were blown down, and a railroad crossing arm was bent.
Reported at Interstate 440 and US 1 North.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in North Carolina in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in North Carolina, May 2005
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5449602, 5449601.