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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 23, 1988Durham County, Orange County, Person County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 1988, 10:25 PM EDT for Durham County, Orange County, Person 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
May 23, 1988, 10:25 PM EDT (02:25 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 1988, 11:30 PM EDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Durham County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person 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 23, 10:30 PM EDTThunderstorm Wind 0Durham, 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 00:00Z on 1988-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 946 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1988-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 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
946 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1953 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 10:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake64 min
May 24, 1:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke34 min
May 24, 1:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland39 min
May 24, 1:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin, Warren57 min
May 24, 1:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHalifax, Nash61 min
May 24, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Lee, Wake47 min
May 24, 7:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.