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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 24, 1988Chatham County, Lee County, Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1988, 5:58 PM EDT for Chatham County, Lee County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1988, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1988, 6:45 PM EDT
In force
47 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chatham County, NC, Lee County, NC, Wake 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 92 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 1988-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 147 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 1988-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 19 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
147 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-120 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1329 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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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, 10:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Orange, Person65 min
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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.