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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 2, 1988Lee County, Moore County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1988, 4:24 PM EDT for Lee County, Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 2, 1988, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 1988, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Lee County, NC, Moore 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, 8.4 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 1988-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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 1988-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 75 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-212 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 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 2, 3:55 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
350 PM EDT THU JUNE 2 1988

      ...THUNDERSTORMS IN WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY...

AT 345PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THAT STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS HAD DEVELOPED IN WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY. THE
STRONGEST STORM WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHWEST CHATHAM COUNTY ABOUT
10 MILES WEST OF GOLDSTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT
25 MPH. THIS MOVEMENT WILL BRING IT INTO NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY BY
430PM.

ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED OVER NORTHEAST RANDOLPH COUNTY JUST
TO THE EAST OF RAMSEUR. THIS STORM WAS ALSO MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL
MOVE INTO WESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY BY 430PM.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY WINDS
AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. LISTEN TO WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO
AND TELEVISION FOR UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

LG

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett69 min
Jun 2, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHCumberland49 min
Jun 2, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake54 min
Jun 2, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham58 min

Nearby

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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.