Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 19, 1992, 3:52 PM EST for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 19, 1992, 3:52 PM EST (20:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 19, 1992, 5:00 PM EST
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hoke County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 124 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 192054 SVRRDU NCC105-085-093-192200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 352 PM EST THU MAR 19 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...LEE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...HARNETT COUNTY...HOKE COUNTY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH A HISTORY OF LARGE HAIL WERE MOVING INTO SOUTHERN LEE...SOUTHWEST HARNETT...AND NORTHERN HOKE COUNTIES AT 353 PM. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM...A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. TORNADO|ES CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT WARNING FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. GAF
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, Mar 19, 9:59 AM EST, 5 hours 53 minutes before
NCZALL-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 10 AM EDT THU MAR 19 1992 THE NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JBP
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 2:26 PM EST, 1 hour 26 minutes before
NCZ003>005-014-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 217 PM EDT THU MAR 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 7 PM... ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN PERSON COUNTY AND PARTS OF THE SANDHILLS... AT 218 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE SANDHILLS WITH THE STRONGEST STORM LOCATED ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF FAYETTEVILLE. OTHER SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO PERSON COUNTY IN THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT. NO SEVERE WEATHER HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS...HOWEVER THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY UNSTABLE AND STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND INTENSIFY THE REST OF THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER THE WESTERN PIEDMONT AND THESE HAVE PRODUCED HAIL EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. ALL PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GAF
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:02 PM EST, 50 minutes before
NCZ003>005-014-192015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 300 PM EDT THU MAR 19 1992 ...TORNADO WATCH IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 7 PM... ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN JOHNSTON COUNTY... AT 3 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A RAPIDLY DEVELOPING STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER DUNN IN SOUTHEAST HARNETT COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 TO 25 MPH INTO SOUTHERN JOHNSTON COUNTY. RADAR SHOWED THAT SOME SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMAPNY THIS STORM. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER HOKE COUNTY TO THE SOUTHEAST OF RAEFORD AND IN NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY ABOUT 8 MILES NORTH OF ROXBORO. STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON. ALL PERSONS IN CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN TO THE WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL TELEVISION FOR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GAF
Special weather statement, Mar 19, 3:20 PM EST, 32 minutes before
NCZ003>005-192100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 318 PM EDT THU MAR 19 1992 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN PERSON COUNTY... AT 315 PM HAM RADIO OPERATORS REPORTED ONE QUARTER INCH HAIL IN SOUTHERN PERSON COUNTY NEAR TIMBERLAKE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MPH. OTHER VERY INTENSE THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY TO THE NORTH OF ROXBORO. ALL PERSONS SHOULD REMAIN ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. GAF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 19, 3:41 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 64 min |
| Mar 19, 3:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 68 min |
| Mar 19, 4:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 4:05 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Lenoir, Wayne | 55 min |
| Mar 19, 4:08 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 67 min |
| Mar 19, 4:17 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Harnett, Lee | 58 min |
| Mar 19, 4:30 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 60 min |
| Mar 19, 4:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 65 min |
| Mar 19, 4:48 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange, Person | 57 min |
| Mar 19, 5:14 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 31 min |
| Mar 19, 5:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Pitt | 42 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.