Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1988, 2:48 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 1988, 2:48 PM EDT (18:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 1988, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 94 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -181 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1764 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 0 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 9, 2:27 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 230 PM EDT THU JUN 9 1988 ... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH PORTIONS OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE ENTIRE COASTAL AREA...ALL OF THE SANDHILLS AREA INCLUDING FAYETTEVILLE...THE SOUTHERN COASTAL PLAIN...THE CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN INCLUDING THE GOLDSBORO AREA...AND A SMALL PORTION OF THE NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN BUT THAT PORTION EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNT AREA. AT 230 PM THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ABOUT 40 MILES NORTH OF FAYETTEVILLE MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. KK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 43 min |
| Jun 9, 3:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lee | 47 min |
| Jun 9, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 52 min |
| Jun 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 45 min |
| Jun 9, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir | 61 min |
| Jun 9, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Scotland | 68 min |
| Jun 9, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 49 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.