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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 21, 1986Lenoir County, Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 1986, 5:15 PM EDT for Lenoir County, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
May 21, 1986, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired
May 21, 1986, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lenoir County, NC, Wayne County, NC

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 21, 5:40 PM EDTHail 0.75Lenoir, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 207 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1986-05-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1986-05-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 120 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1148 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
166 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 21, 4:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
408 PM EDT WED MAY 21 1986

TIME           EVENT
 1235 PM EDT   PUBLIC REPORT OF 4 OR 5 LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN AT
               A FARM WEST OF SEVEN SPRINGS IN SOUTHERN WAYNE COUNTY.
               NO PROPERTY DAMAGE.  LAW ENFORCEMENT IN WAYNE AND
               DUPLIN COUNTIES HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY DAMAGE REPORTS
               AS OF ABOUT 200 PM EDT.

WAJ

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 11:55 AM EDTTornado WarningRAHWayne60 min
May 21, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne, Wilson57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1986Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.