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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 19, 1992Durham County, Orange County, Person County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 4:48 PM EST for Durham County, Orange County, Person County, North Carolina. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report 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: Mar 19, 1992, 4:48 PM EST (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 1992, 5:45 PM EST
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Durham County, NC, Orange County, NC, Person County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 19, 4:50 PM EST	Hail 0.88	Person, 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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 82 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 597 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 124 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 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

Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:13 PM EST, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
411 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992

TIME           EVENT
 400 PM        LARGE HAIL...GOLFBALL SIZE CENTRAL MOORE COUNTY, NC.

KK

Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:25 PM EST, 23 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
422 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992

TIME           EVENT
 415 PM        1/2 INCH HAIL...FRANKLIN COUNTY, NC...REPORTED
               BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR.

REA

Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:27 PM EST, 21 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
428 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992

TIME           EVENT
 420 PM        GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL...PITT COUNTY NEAR RR 1700-1742.

EJC

Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:41 PM EST, 7 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:43 PM EST, 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 19, 4:45 PM EST, 3 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
Mar 19, 3:41 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	64 min
Mar 19, 3:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee	68 min
Mar 19, 3:52 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	68 min
Mar 19, 4:02 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	58 min
Mar 19, 4:05 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir, Wayne	55 min
Mar 19, 4:08 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	67 min
Mar 19, 4:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett, Lee	58 min
Mar 19, 4:30 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	60 min
Mar 19, 4:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	65 min
Mar 19, 5:14 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	31 min
Mar 19, 5:33 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.