Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1992, 10:44 PM EDT for Northampton County, North Carolina. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1992, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1992, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Northampton County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 228 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
- 434 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 19, 9:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 43 minutes before
NCZ006-200200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 858 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALAMANCE...CASWELL...AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES... AT 850 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWERS SCATTERED ACROSS SURRY COUNTY AND EASTERN WILKES COUNTY. AN ISOLATED SHOWER WAS ALSO IN PROGRESS OVER NORTHERN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 10 MPH. ALTHOUGH PREVIOUS THUNDERSTORMS IN THE VICINITY OF ALAMANCE...CASWELL... AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES HAVE NOT PRODUCED SEVERE WEATHER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM TONIGHT. JN
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 9:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 15 minutes before
NCZ003-004-005-014-200230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 920 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN COUNTIES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA PIEDMONT AND COASTAL PLAIN... AT 910 PM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE CROSSING INTO NORTHERN WARREN COUNTY. A BROKEN LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINIA WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AND WILL ENTER HALIFAX AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES BY AROUND 930 PM. THESE STORMS CONTAINED WINDS STRONG ENOUGH TO DOWN TREES EARLIER THIS EVENING IN SOUTHEASTERN VIRGINA. IN ADDITION... NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES AREA BEING REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS ALSO NOTED IN NORTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. ALL STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 10 PM. SGY
Local storm report, Jun 19, 9:44 PM EDT, 1 hour before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
945 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992
TIME EVENT
730 PM EDT POLICE CHIEF REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL ON BUCKHORN ROAD
NEAR SANFORD IN LEE COUNTY.
830 PM EDT COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL IN MAMERS AND A
TREE DOWN NEAR OLIVIA IN HARNETT COUNTY. TIME ESTIMATED.
MDVSpecial weather statement, Jun 19, 10:27 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
NCZ006-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 1025 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALAMANCE... CASWELL...AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... AT 1015 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS ALAMANCE...CASWELL...GUILFORD...AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES. AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS ALSO OCCURRING OVER DAVIE FORSYTH COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT... FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS. JN
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 10:30 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
NCZ006-200400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 1029 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM FOR ALAMANCE... CASWELL...AND RANDOLPH COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED... AT 1015 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED ACROSS ALAMANCE...CASWELL...GUILFORD...AND ROCKINGHAM COUNTIES. AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS ALSO OCCURRING OVER DAVIE AND FORSYTH COUNTIES. THE RAIN WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. ALTHOUGH WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT FOR THE REMAINDER OF TONIGHT... FURTHER THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS. JN CORRECTED FOR TYPO
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 10:30 PM EDT, 14 minutes before
NCZ003-004-005-014-200330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1030 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 1992 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA HAS EXPIRED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA EXPIRED AT 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING. HOWEVER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS REMAIN ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT...COASTAL PLAIN...AND SANDHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS NEAR FAYETTEVILLE IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS ALL OF THE COUNTIES BORDERING VIRGINIA IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT AND NORTHERN COASTAL PLAIN. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ALL PEOPLE IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. MDV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 19, 10:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wayne | 36 min |
| Jun 19, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 47 min |
| Jun 20, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Pitt | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1992Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.