Senior Chad Wiley collapsed after a voluntary football workout on campus Tuesday May 27th. Chad was 22 years old.
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Senior Chad Wiley collapsed after a voluntary football workout on campus Tuesday May 27th. Chad was 22 years old.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 27, 1:49 PM EST, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 249 PM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE NORTHWEST TONIGHT... AND WILL THEN DROP THROUGH THE REGION ON WEDNESDAY. THIS WILL USHER IN A COOLER AND CLOUDIER AIR MASS THAT WILL PERSIST INTO EARLY THURSDAY. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH TONIGHT/... AS OF 230 PM TUESDAY... A FEW SHOWERS WERE STARTING TO DEVELOP IN THE FOOTHILLS OF NC WITH DAYTIME HEATING IN COMBINATION WITH THE 700 MB TROUGH. EXPECT THIS ACTIVITY TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE AND SLOWLY PUSH EAST THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. SREF GUIDANCE ALONG WITH THE GFS AND NAM SUGGEST THE BEST CHANCE FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS RUNS FROM THIS EVENING INTO THE EARLY MORNING HOURS. DUE TO THE LACK OF INSTABILITY DUE NOT EXPECT ANY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALTHOUGH AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS OR TWO IS STILL POSSIBLE. THE FRONT MOVES SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NC AROUND DAYBREAK. WITH INCREASING CLOUD COVER OVERNIGHT WITH CONTINUED SOUTHERLY FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO GO WITH LOWS ON THE WARM SIDE OF THE STATISTICAL GUIDANCE... 63-67. && .SHORT TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... AS OF 310 AM TUESDAY... THE SURFACE FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH TO NEAR THE SC BORDER BY MID AFTERNOON WEDNESDAY. A WEAK SHORTWAVE WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS THE REGION BETWEEN 18-00Z WED AFTERNOON AT A TIME WHERE THE MOISTURE WILL BE THE DEEPEST AND THIS SHOULD INCREASE THE SCATTERED SHOWER ACTIVITY OVER THE AREA ESPECIALLY FROM RALEIGH SOUTH AND EAST. LAPSE RATES NEVER EXCEED 5 DEGREES C/KM AND THIS SHOULD LIMIT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. RAINFALL AMOUNTS SHOULD REMAIN RATHER LIGHT AND A QUARTER OF AN INCH OR LESS WITH MOST OF THE RAIN OCCURRING BETWEEN LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON. AS WINDS SHIFT FROM WSW TO NE BEHIND THE FRONT WERE LIKELY TO SEE A BRIEF UPSURGE OF WIND SPEEDS TO BETTER THAN 10 KTS JUST BEHIND THE FRONT AS THE LARGE STABLE SURFACE HIGH BUILDS IN WEDNESDAY. FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT/THURSDAY: MODELS SEEM TO HAVE BACKED OF ON THE PRECIPITATION ALTHOUGH AMPLE LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AROUND THROUGH THURSDAY. WILL KEEP JUST A LOW CHANCE OF SHOWERS MAINLY NEAR THE FRONTAL ZONE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND FAR WESTERN CWA WEDNESDAY NIGHT... ALONG WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES OVER THE ENTIRE CWA. LOWS FROM THE LOWER 50S NORTH TO NEAR 60 NEAR THE SC BORDER. THE PARENT HIGH WEAKENS AND SETTLES INTO THE MID ATLANTIC THURSDAY AND THOUGH CONDITIONS WILL REMAIN CLOUDY AND THE UPPER TROUGH WILL STILL BE IN PLACE ALONG HE EAST COAST THERE SHOULD NOT BE DEEP ENOUGH MOISTURE FOR WIDESPREAD RAINFALL. THE ONLY SHOWERS THURSDAY SHOULD BE RATHER ISOLATED MAINLY IN THE SOUTH AND WEST. HIGHS IN THE LOWER- MID 70S. && .LONG TERM /THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS OF 230 PM TUESDAY... UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FRIDAY IS BEATEN DOWN BY SUNSET AS AN UPPER MIDWEST SHORT WAVE MOVES EAST. A BROAD LOW PRESSURE TROUGH THEN DEVELOPS AND PERSISTS OVER THE EAST COAST INTO MONDAY NIGHT. THIS FAR OUT IN TIME...A CHANCE FOR RAIN CAN NOT BE TOTALLY RULED OUT WHILE THE UPPER TROUGH LINGERS OVER THE EAST COAST. WITH THE LATEST MODEL RUNS SATURDAY AFTERNOON LOOKS MOST FAVORABLE REGARDING INSTABILITY AND MOISTURE. A TASTE OF SUMMER THIS WEEKEND WITH UPPER 80S TO NEAR 90 FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY...THEN MOSTLY MID 80S FOR THE COMING WORK WEEK. MORNING LOWS MOSTLY MID TO UPPER 60S WITH FRIDAY MORNING PERHAPS COOLEST AT NEAR 60. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... AS OF 200 PM TUESDAY... IFR CONDITIONS PERSISTING ACROSS THE REGION INTO THIS EVENING AS MID CLOUDS AND HIGH CLOUDS START TO SPREAD IN FROM THE WEST. SCATTERED SHOWERS DEVELOPING OVER THE FOOTHILLS THIS AFTERNOON WILL SPREAD EAST AND SOUTH INTO CENTRAL NC THROUGH THE EVENING AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. DUE TO RELATIVELY DRY AIR IN THE LOWER LEVELS CEILINGS SHOULD REMAIN VFR AT LEAST THROUGH 06Z. AFTER O6Z LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASES AND CEILINGS WILL DROP TO MVFR AND IFR BY 12Z WEDNESDAY. A COLD FRONT WILL ALSO PUSH SOUTH ACROSS THE AREA AROUND DAYBREAK WITH WINDS GOING FROM SW TO NE AROUND 12Z-15Z. AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE REGION AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE... WINDS SHIFT TO THE NORTHEAST OVERNIGHT TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY... AND MOISTURE IS TRAPPED IN THE LOWER LEVELS... MVFR TO IFR CONDITIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE DAY WEDNESDAY. A MOIST EASTERLY FLOW OVER THE AREA WELL INTO THURSDAY WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF MVFR CONDITIONS OVER THE REGION. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER THE AREA LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY SHOULD BRING IMPROVED CONDITIONS TO THE AREA FOR AT LEAST THE BEGINNING OF THE WEEKEND. && .RAH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JO NEAR TERM...JO SHORT TERM...JO LONG TERM...RLH AVIATION...JO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1114 AM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008 NCZ007>011-021>028-038>043-073>078-083>086-088-089-281515- 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- 1114 AM EDT TUE MAY 27 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
Senior Chad Wiley collapsed after a voluntary football workout on campus Tuesday May 27th. Chad was 22 years old.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Guilford | 2008-05-27 | 22 | Male | Ball Field | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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