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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 17, 1988Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 17, 1988, 4:17 PM EDT for Greene County, Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 17, 1988, 4:17 PM EDT (20:17 UTC)
Expired
May 17, 1988, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Greene County, NC, Pitt County, NC

The radar

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

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 222 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 1988-05-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1988-05-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-259 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 16, 8:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt38 min
May 17, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett46 min
May 17, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke46 min
May 17, 2:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland48 min
May 17, 2:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland51 min
May 17, 3:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Orange46 min
May 17, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke43 min
May 17, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wayne48 min
May 17, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland43 min
May 17, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe50 min
May 17, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt41 min
May 17, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Wake36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1988Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1988

Sources

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