Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1992, 12:57 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 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
- Jun 26, 1992, 12:57 PM EDT (16:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1992, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wake, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 608 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 960 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 26, 11:40 AM EDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
NCZALL-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1138 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1992 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1130 AM EDT NO SEVERE WETHER WAS OCCURRING IN NORTH CAROLINA. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS CHATHAM...SOUTHERN ORANGE...SOUTHERN DURHAM...AND WAKE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE LOCALLY SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALL PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV.... OR COMMERCIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLPE WARNINGS. MDV
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 11:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
NCZALL-261645- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED FOR TYPO IN SECOND PARAGRAPH. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1138 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1992 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. AT 1130 AM EDT NO SEVERE WEATHER WAS OCCURRING IN NORTH CAROLINA. HOWEVER...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED ACROSS CHATHAM...SOUTHERN ORANGE...SOUTHERN DURHAM...AND WAKE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT AROUND 25 MPH AND WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON...SOME OF WHICH COULD BE LOCALLY SEVERE PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. ALL PEOPLE IN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER THROUGH THIS EVENING AND LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TV.... OR COMMERCjIAL RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MDV
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Wilson | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash, Wilson | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 68 min |
| Jun 26, 3:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Wake | 116 min |
| Jun 26, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 69 min |
| Jun 26, 5:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Durham, Wake | 4 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 41 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.