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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 18, 1992Greene County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1992, 7:12 PM EDT for Greene 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: Jul 18, 1992, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jul 18, 1992, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Greene County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 18, 7:55 PM EDT	Hail 0.75	Greene, 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

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 1441 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jul 18, 3:15 PM EDT, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 52 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 18, 5:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
517 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES TO MOVE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH
CAROLINA...

AT 515 PM EDT A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EAST OF ROCKY
MOUNT IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY SOUTHWEST THROUGH WILSON...JOHNSTON...
HARNETT...HOKE...AND SCOTLAND COUNTIES.

THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL HARNETT COUNTY NEAR LILLINGTON
AND IN NORTHWEST SCOTLAND COUNTY. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER
JOHNSTON COUNTY.

THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY MOVE
INTO THE CITIES OF FAYETTVILLE...GOLDSBORO...AND GREENVILLE WITHIN THE
NEXT HOUR.

STAY TUNED TO  RADIO...TV...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS
AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK A SAFE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

MDV

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:18 PM EDT, 54 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
617 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

615PM EDT      MOORE COUNTY...GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN SPIES
           B    IN NORTHWEST MOORE COUNTY. ALSO..."STRONG" WINDS WERE
               REPORTED THERE AT 605 PM. REPORTED BY MOORE COUNTY
               SHERIFF.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:25 PM EDT, 47 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
623 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

620 PM EDT     MOORE COUNTY...GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED IN ROBBINS.
               ALSO 45 MPHH WINDS.

620 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY...ONE TREE DOWN ON RTE. 121 BETWEEN
               CALIFORNIA AND BRUCE...IN NORTHWESTERN PART OF COUNTY.

GAF

Local storm report, Jul 18, 6:42 PM EDT, 30 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
640 PM EDT SAT JUL 18 1992

TIME           EVENT

637 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY...PITT-GREENVILLE AIRPORT ON THE NORTHWEST
               SIDE OF THE XCITY OF GREENVILLE REPORTED WINDS GUSTING
               TO 63 KNOTS...OR 72 MPH.

GAF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 18, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	66 min
Jul 18, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	60 min
Jul 18, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	64 min
Jul 18, 7:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	68 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.