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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 21, 1992Lenoir County, Wayne County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 21, 1992, 5:35 PM EDT for Lenoir County, Wayne County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 21, 1992, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
Expired: Jun 21, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Lenoir County, NC, Wayne County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 207 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

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 212137
SVRRDU
NCC107-191-212230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
535 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...WESTERN LENOIR COUNTY...SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY
 
AT 530 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHEAST DUPLIN COUNTY AND WAS
BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO SOUTHEASTERN WAYNE COUNTY AND WESTERN LENOIR
COUNTY. THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL IN SAMPSON AND
DUPLIN COUNTY. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY.
 
PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD BE ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND
DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN OCCUR
WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM.

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, Jun 21, 1:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 24 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
111 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992

TIME OF        EVENT
OCCURRANCE

915AM EDT      ONE INCH HAIL AND SEVERAL TREES AND POWER LINES BLOWN
               DOWN IN NORTHWEST MOORE COUNTY.

950 AM EDT     3 OR 4 TREES TWISTED OFF ABOUT 6 FT ABOVE THE GROUND
               BETWEEN CARTHAGE AND VASS. ALSO POWER LINES DOWN.
               GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL NEAR CARTHAGE AT THE SAME TIME.
               A SECOND REPORT OF HAIL "LARGER THAN GOLF BALLS PILING
               UP" OCCURRING AT 950 AM.

11AM EDT       TREES DOWN BLOCKING STATE ROADS 1605 AND 1710 AND
               PART OF INTERSTATE 95 NEAR THE U.S. 13 EXIT IN
               IN NORTHERN CUMBERLAND COUNTY.
^
1240PM            GREENE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT RELAYED A
                  REPORT OF NICKEL SIZE HAIL COVERING THE GROUND
                  IN SNOW HILL AND ARBA IN SOUTHERN GREENE COUNTY.

JMP/111PM

Special weather statement, Jun 21, 3:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 20 minutes before

NCZ003>005-014-015-212100-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
310 PM EDT SUN JUN 21 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS SUNDAY
EVENING FOR COUNTIES IN SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA STRETCHING FROM
CLEVELAND COUNTY IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT TO CARTERET COUNTY ON
THE COAST AND SOUTHWARD INTO SOUTH CAROLINA.

THIS STATEMENT APPLIES TO PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA.
AT 310 PM NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN THE NORTHEAST
PIEDMONT...SANDHILLS OR NORTH AND CENTRAL COASTAL PLAIN.

RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE COASTAL PLAIN FROM
AROUND ROCKY MOUNT TO THE VICINITY OF GOLDSBORO. THESE SHOWERS
WERE MOVING TOWARD THE EAST ABOUT 3J0 MPH.

STAY TUNED TO RADIO...TV AND NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER
STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLY WARNINGS.
JMP

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, 9:57 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	48 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

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.