HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
RALEIGH NC 510 AM EDT SUN JUL 6 2008
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 SUN JUL 6 2008
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
.DAY ONE...TODAY
AND TONIGHT.
SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON
AND EVENING... CONTINUING INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WITH A
WARM MOIST AIR MASS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION... AN
ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
CAN NOT BE RULED OUT. THESE CONDITIONS COULD ALSO LEAD
TO LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL... WHICH WILL IN TURN LEAD TO THE
LIKELIHOOD OF FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...
ESPECIALLY THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE RECEIVED LARGE AMOUNTS OF RAIN OVER
THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.
.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE FORECAST FOR THE BALANCE OF THE WEEK
AS THE WARM MOIST AIR MASS REMAINS IN PLACE OVER THE REGION. SOME OF
THE STORMS COULD REACH SEVERE LIMITS ON TUESDAY WITH THE MAIN THREAT
BEING ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS AND SEVERE HAIL.
.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SKYWARN
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT LIKELY AT THIS TIME HOWEVER SPOTTERS
ARE ENCOURAGED TO STAY TUNED AND REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER.
HERE COMES SECOND TROPICAL STORM OF THE SEASON - BERTHA!
To view the lastest public advisory on Bertha, please click here.
SPOTTER PHOTOS OF SEVERE WEATHER
Central Carolina SKYWARN welcomes your photos of severe weather and
damage taken
in any CCS county (Chatham, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin,
Granville, Halifax, Harnett, Johnston, Lee, Nash,
Person,
Orange, Sampson, Vance, Wake, Wayne, Warren, Wilson). Please
email photos to Emergency
Coordinator Virginia Enzor at nc4va@nc.rr.com;
don't forget to include a brief description, the location of the event,
the date and time of the event, and the name of the
photographer. Your photo may be posted to
the SKYWARN website, featured in a newsletter, or used in a PowerPoint
training presentation. Credit will be given to the photographer. The
photo below
was taken by spotter Rob Rousseau KI4BKE of Holly Springs on May 20,
2008 at about 5:20PM; the location was Rouse Road and Oliver Creek
Parkway. It depicts the range in size of hail that fell at
his
location;
he wisely included coins for size comparison.
NOAA
PREDICTS NEAR OR
ABOVE
NORMAL ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON FOR 2008
Hurricane Preparedness Week is May 25-31, 2008; the week is designed to
make the public aware of hurricane hazards and the actions to take
to reduce danger to life and property. Hurricane hazards come in the
forms of storm surge, high winds, tornadoes and flooding. Do you have a
plan that addresses all the hazards relevant to your locale?
The
National Hurricane Center has prepared topic for each day this week to
help you prepare.
To learn about historical tropical cyclones occurring in different
areas located throughout the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico,
please visit the NOAA Coastal Services Center Historical Hurricane
Tracks website by clicking here
. This website provides information about U.S. coastal county
population and hurricane strikes as well as links to Internet resources
on tropical cyclones. The interactive mapping application allows you to
search the National Hurricane Center historical tropical cyclone
database and graphically display storms affecting your locale since
1851.
For a tropical cyclone tutorial from Jetstream, please click here.
To visit the NC State Emergency Preparedness website, please click here.
To view a future worst case scenario of hurricane disaster for
North
Carolina in powerpoint format, please click here.
This powerpoint presentation, entitled "NC's
Katrina", was created by
Raleigh NWS Warning Coordination Meteorologist Jeff Orrock.
GRAPHICAL TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
This
National Hurricane Center
product
allows the viewer to quickly see any areas in the Atlantic or Gulf of
Mexico that NHC is watching for possible development. This
product updates at approximately 2AM, 8AM, 2PM and 8PM
daily. For more
information, please visit Atlantic
Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook
.
UPCOMING
PROGRAMS ON CCS INFORMATION NETS
June 3 - "2008 Severe
Weather" with
Warning
Coordination Meteorologist Jeff Orrock KI4KKX. Please click here
to view the accompanying PowerPoint presentation.
Should you need a
PowerPoint viewer, one is available at PowerPoint
Viewer.
June 24 - "Lightning
Safety and Lightning Survivor Stories" with CCS Emergency
Coordinator Virginia Enzor NC4VA; Lightning Safety Awareness
Week, June 22-28.
July 8 - "National
Weather Association" with NWA Executive Assistant Ruth
Aiken KI4ZCW.
July 22 - "Drought Update"
with NWS Hydrologist Mike Moneypenny.
July 29 - "RDU Terminal
Dopplar Radar, etc"
with Raleigh NWS Meteorologist-in-Charge Darin Figurskey KC2IPY.
Please check back later for accompanying PowerPoint
presentation.
Please
join us
each Tuesday at 9:15PM on the 146.88 repeater for the CCS
Information Net. On each net there are announcements, check-ins by
county, and often a program or training spot. If there is a program
topic you would like to suggest for consideration, please send an email
to CCS EC Virginia Enzor at nc4va@nc.rr.com.
UPCOMING
EVENTS (All Open to the Public)
Thursday, June 19 - Basic
SKYWARN Spotter Training with Radar Basics, 7-9PM, Public
Safety Services Bldg, Johnston Community College, Room J1630, 245
College Rd., Smithfield, NC.
Tuesday, June 24
- Basic
SKYWARN Spotter Training with Radar Basics, 7-9PM,
County Administration Building, Gordon Wicker Room, 106
Hillcrest Drive, Sanford, NC, Lee County.
Thursday, August 14 -
Basic SKYWARN Spotter Training, 7-9PM, Cary Fire Station
#1, 1501 N. Harrison Avenue, Cary, NC.
SPRING EDITION OF CHANGING SKIES OUT
The Raleigh National Weather Service publishes its newsletter "Changing
Skies" three times a year; it covers items of interest to emergency
managers, weather spotters and others. The latest edition can be seen
by clicking here.
FLOOD SAFETY AWARENESS
WEEK
Flood Safety Awareness Week is March 17-20, 2008. To better prepare you
for how floods occur, the hazards associated with flooding,
and
some ways you can protect life and property, the National Weather
Service
has
prepared a topic of interest for Monday-Friday. Topcis include the
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS), Turn Around Don't Drown,
Floods and Droughts, Flood Insurance, and Flood Safety. To access this
information, please visit the Flood Safety
Awareness webpage. To view flooding locations in real time,
please click here.
March 2-8 is Severe Weather Awareness Week! To better prepare you
for the adversities of severe weather, the National Weather Service has
prepared a topic of interest for Monday-Friday. To access this
information,
please click on the appropriate link below.
The statewide tornado drill is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5, at
9:30AM.
NEW BACK-UP FREQUENCY ADDED
Central Carolina SKYWARN is pleased to announce that it will use the
K4ITL 147.135 repeater [tone of 82.5] located in Chapel Hill as a
secondary back-up in the event of the 146.88 should not be available
for use. The primary back-up remains the K4ITL 147.105 repeater [tone
on 82.5] in Broadway; the third back-up will be WB4TQD 145.39 repeater
[tone of 82.5] in southern Raleigh. The fourth back-up will be the
Carolina 440 Link System. Those frequencies can be found at
www.carolina440.net. Thanks goes to Danny Hampton K4ITL for the
addition of the Chapel Hill repeater! We will have a "Radio Check
Night" on Tuesday, November 20, so program your radios with this
frequency and join us on the net at 9:15pm!
CoCoRaHS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
CoCoRaHS is a new program for voluneteer weather observers
that began September 1 in North Carolina. Participants
measure precipitation daily and enter their reports online.
Users of the data include the National Weather Service,
hydrologists, emergency managers, city utilities (water supply, water
conservation, storm water), insurance adjusters, USDA, engineers,
teachers, and more. Training is availiable online at the
CoCoRaHS website. To learn more, please visit www.cocorahs.org
NEW CLOUD CHART AVAILABLE
NOAA has released a new cloud chart; to access it, please click here
.
READER'S CHOICE LIST OF WEATHER
BOOKS BY NWS LEAD FORECASTER ROD GONSKI
Summary of Recommendations from July 10, 2007 CCS Net
1.The Audubon Society
Field Guide to North American Weather by David McWilliams
Ludlum, National Audubon Society (Rod describes this publication as a
"must-have" reference book!)
2. Isaac's
Storm: A Man, A Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
by Erik Larson; non-fiction
3. Storm
Watchers: The Turbulent History of Prediction from Franklin's Kite to
El Nino by John D. Cox of MIT
4. North
Carolina's Hurricane History by Jay Barnes - This
publication provides perspective from the Colonial Era through modern
times.
5. How the
Weather Works: 100 Ways Parents and Kids
Can
Share the Secrets of the Atmosphere by Michael Allaby,
Reader's Digest
6. The Handy
Weather Answer Book by Walter A. Lyons (Good reference and
trivia book)
7. Hands-on
Meteorology: Stories, Theories, and Simple Experiments by
Zbigniew Sorbjan
8. North
Carolina Weather and Climate by Peter J. Robinson
9. The Ship
and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of the Fantome
by Jim Carrier; non-fiction
10. Tornado:
Nature's Ultimate Windstorm by Thomas P. Grazulis
11. The Children's
Blizzard by David Laskin; non-fiction
LIGHTNING SAFETY WEEK -
JUNE 24-30, 2007
Summer is prime time for one of nature's deadliest weather
phenomena - lightning! Lightning causes an average of 80
fatalilties and 300 injuries each year across the United States.
For more information about how to protect yourself from this
hazard, please visit here.
Click here
for information about NWS Skywarn training.
Weather Maps
& Raleigh
NWS WeatherCam
Skywarn Net
Frequencies146.88
MHz (Main) 147.105 MHz
[82.5
Hz] (Backup)
147.135 MHz [82.5] (Second Backup) 145.390 MHz
[82.5
Hz] (Third Backup) Carolina 440
UHF Link
System (Fourth Backup)
UPCOMING
PROGRAMS ON CCS INFORMATION NETS
NOAA ALL HAZARDS RADIO NOW ON LINE
CoCoRaHS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
