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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 16, 1989Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1989, 4:18 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 16, 1989, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
Expired
Jun 16, 1989, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Cumberland 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

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1989-06-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1989-06-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 137 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
NaN m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
137 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.1

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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
Jun 15, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett, Lee40 min
Jun 15, 9:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash61 min
Jun 16, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore54 min
Jun 16, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham53 min
Jun 16, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin43 min
Jun 16, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Wake44 min
Jun 16, 3:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWarren44 min
Jun 16, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wake33 min
Jun 16, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland, Harnett, Wake39 min
Jun 16, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham, Orange39 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.