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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 3, 1987Granville County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1987, 8:05 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 65 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: Jun 3, 1987, 8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)
Expired: Jun 3, 1987, 9:10 PM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Granville 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 3, 8:30 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Granville, 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 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 115 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1718 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1558 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 40 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

Special weather statement, Jun 3, 4:16 PM EDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 6:48 PM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 7:40 PM EDT, 25 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
740 PM EDT WED JUN 3 1987

A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT ACROSS NORTHEASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA...FROM AROUND TARBORO EASTWARD TO THE COAST.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FOR PORTIONS
OF THE FOOTHILLS...PIEDMONT...SANDHILLS...AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL
COASTAL PLAIN.

AT 730 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF INTENSE
THUNDERSTORMS JUST NORTH OF THE NORTH CAROLINA VIRGINIA LINE FROM
NEAR DANVILLE TO NEAR MURFREESBORO. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS
IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS ARE LOCATED JUST NORTH OF KERR LAKE AND NEAR
SOUTH HILL. THESE STORMS SHOULD BE OF SEPCIAL INTEREST TO BOATERS ON
KERR LAKE AS THEY PASS INTO NORTH CAROLINA.
A SECOND SMALL AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS HAS FORMED NEAR ASHEBORO IN
RANDOLPH COUNTY. THESE STORM WERE ALSO MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT
25 MPH.

LLISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO...TV...OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

DMD

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 3, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	65 min
Jun 3, 10:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	47 min
Jun 4, 12:29 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	41 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1987 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1987

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.