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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 10, 1993Northampton County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1993, 4:36 PM EDT for Northampton County, North Carolina. It was in force for 54 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 10, 1993, 4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 10, 1993, 5:30 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Northampton County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 2203 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1047 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 2 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 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 10, 1:55 PM EDT, 2 hours 41 minutes before

NCZ007-101830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
155 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 1993

...STRONNG THUNDERSTORM IN THE  NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 155 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME WESTERN WILKES
COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF NORTH WILKESBORO.

THIS STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 5 MPH.

PERSONS IN WESTERN WILKES COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS
THAT CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

GTR

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 1:58 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before

NCZ007-101830-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
155 PM EDT SAT JUL 10 1993

...STRONNG THUNDERSTORM IN THE  NORTHERN FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA...

AT 155 PM RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME WESTERN WILKES
COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF NORTH WILKESBORO.

THIS STORM IS MOVING VERY SLOWLY TO THE EAST AT ABOUT 5 MPH.

PERSONS IN WESTERN WILKES COUNTY SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS
THAT CAN PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...TAKE SHELTER
IMMEDIATELY.

GTR

Special weather statement, Jul 10, 3:39 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

NCZ003>005-014-092130-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
335 PM EDT FRI JUL 9 1993

... SMALL HAIL IN NORTH RALEIGH ...

WIDELY SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
PIEDMONT...THE SANDHILLS...AND THE COASTAL PLAIN. THE STRONGEST
STORMS WERE LOCATED IN FRNAKLIN COUNTY...AND IN NORTHERN WAKE
COUNTY. LARGE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED IN NORTH RALEIGH. A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS EFFECT FOR FRANKLIN COUNTY TIL 415 PM
DUE TO REPORTS OF A 60 MPH WIND GUST NEAR FRANKINTON.

THERE MAY BE A FEW MORE THUNDERSTORMS THAT BECOME SEVERE WITH LARGE
HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING SLOWLY EASTWARD. STAY TUNE TO NOAA
WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS.
KK

Local storm report, Jul 10, 4:12 PM EDT, 24 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 10, 2:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland, Harnett	42 min
Jul 10, 3:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	30 min
Jul 10, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	52 min
Jul 10, 3:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	51 min
Jul 10, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	50 min
Jul 10, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	44 min
Jul 10, 4:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	40 min
Jul 10, 4:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	46 min
Jul 10, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	48 min
Jul 10, 5:09 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Wilson	2 hr
Jul 10, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1993 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993

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.