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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 9, 1988Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 1988, 4:08 PM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 52 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 9, 1988, 4:08 PM EDT (20:08 UTC)
Expired: Jun 9, 1988, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 52 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Harnett 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 122 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: 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

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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 9, 2:27 PM EDT, 1 hour 41 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

Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  GREENSBORO NC
 300 PM EDT THU JUNE 9 1988

ATTN SELS...
 AT 1845Z HIGHWAY PATROL AND PRIVATE CITIZEN REPORTED GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF THE TOWN OF SEAGROVE IN RANDOLPH
COUNTY.

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Local storm report, Jun 9, 3:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT...CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  GREENSBORO NC
 300 PM EDT THU JUNE 9 1988

ATTN SELS...
 AT 1845Z HIGHWAY PATROL AND PRIVATE CITIZEN REPORTED GOLFBALL
SIZE HAIL 5 MILES WEST OF THE TO3WN OF SEAGROVE IN RANDOLPH
COUNTY.

Special weather statement, Jun 9, 3:35 PM EDT, 33 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 9, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	42 min
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, 4:12 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.