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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 2, 1988Chatham County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1988, 7:47 PM EDT for Chatham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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 2, 1988, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 2, 1988, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Chatham 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 2, 7:55 PM EDT	Hail 1.75	Chatham, NC
Jun 2, 8:15 PM EDT	Hail 1	Chatham, 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 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 72 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: 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, 3 hours 52 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

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
535 PM EDT THU JUN 02 1988

TIME           EVENT

525PM EDT      HARNETT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTS GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL
               COVERING THE GROUND NEAR OLIVIA IN WESTERN HARNETT
               COUNTY.

MES

Local storm report, Jun 2, 5:47 PM EDT, 2 hours before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
548 PM EDT THU JUN 02 1988

TIME           EVENT

545PM EDT      SKYWARN SPOTTER IN SPRING LAKE IN NORTHERN CUMBERLAND
               COUNTY REPORTS 1 INCH HAIL.

MES

Local storm report, Jun 2, 7:35 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lee, Moore	66 min
Jun 2, 5:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	69 min
Jun 2, 6:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Cumberland	49 min
Jun 2, 7:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	54 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1988 Every 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.