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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Raleigh, NC

August 12, 1992Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 1992, 3:33 PM EDT for Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 12, 1992, 3:33 PM EDT (19:33 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 1992, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
42 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Wilson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 183 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 367 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1992-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1101 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
108 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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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, Aug 12, 2:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
NCZALL-122000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
201 PM EDT WED AUG 12 1992

AT 2PM A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM CENTRAL MOORE INTO WESTERN HARNETT
COUNTY. OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED OVER
CUMBERLAND AND HOKE COUNTIES.

SMALL HAIL WAS REPORTED IN SKYLINE NEAR SOUTHERN PINES. GUSTY WINDS
WERE ALSO REPORTED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD THE EAST.
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ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS MOST OF
CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

PERSONS SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING CONDITIONS.

LBC

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 10:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson68 min
Aug 11, 11:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange43 min
Aug 12, 3:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt68 min
Aug 12, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland64 min
Aug 12, 4:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham67 min
Aug 12, 4:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWake68 min
Aug 12, 5:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWake2 hr
Aug 12, 7:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHWake2 hr

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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.