Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1992, 5:26 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1992, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1992, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Moore County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 653 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 032128 SVRRDU NCC125-032230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 526 PM EDT FRI JUL 3 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...MOORE COUNTY AT 520 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER EXTREME SOUTHERN RANDOLPH COUNTY...MOVING INTO NORTHERN MOORE COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THE STORM WILL REACH THE CARTHAGE AREA BY 545 PM. 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. END/REA
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, Jul 3, 5:02 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
NCZ003-014-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 502 PM EDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADED TOWARD CHATHAM COUNTY... AT 5 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT PROBABLY CONTAINED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN SOUTHEASTERN CHATHAM COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHEBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING SOUTHWESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY BETWEEN 520 AND 530 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT. ALL PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...PARTICULARLY IN CHATHAM COUNTY ...SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GAF
Special weather statement, Jul 3, 5:06 PM EDT, 20 minutes before
NCZ003-014-032200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 505 PM EDT FRI JUL 3 1992 ...VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM HEADED TOWARD CHATHAM COUNTY... AT 5 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM THAT PROBABLY CONTAINED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS IN SOUTHEASTERN RANDOLPH COUNTY ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ASHEBORO. THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 TO 20 MPH AND WILL BE APPROACHING SOUTHWESTERN CHATHAM COUNTY BETWEEN 520 AND 530 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT. ALL PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...PARTICULARLY IN CHATHAM COUNTY ...SHOULD STAY TUNED TO LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GAF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 50 min |
| Jul 3, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 65 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.