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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 21, 1992Harnett County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1992, 9:57 AM EDT for Harnett County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1992, 9:57 AM EDT (13:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1992, 10:45 AM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Harnett County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 2.0 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: 71 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -102 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1071 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 155 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.3

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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 21, 9:11 AM EDT, 46 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 20, 9:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax	55 min
Jun 21, 9:32 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Moore	58 min
Jun 21, 9:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lee	44 min
Jun 21, 10:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	46 min
Jun 21, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene, Pitt	45 min
Jun 21, 12:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	33 min
Jun 21, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir, Wayne	55 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.