Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 27, 1993, 3:31 PM EST for Chatham County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 1993, 3:31 PM EST (20:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 27, 1993, 4:30 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Chatham County, NC, Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 516 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 348 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 350 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Mar 27, 10:46 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before
NCZALL-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 1045 AM EST SAT MAR 27 1993 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDER&STORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. JBP
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 2:12 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
NCZALL-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 210 PM EST SAT MAR 27 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 7 PM... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM APPROACHING NORTH CAROLINA FROM THE SOUTH EARLY THIS AFTERNOOON HAS TRIGGERED SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. AT 145 PM...THE STRONGEST SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IN NORTH CAROLINA WERE IN THE CENTRAL COASTAL PLAINS IN PITT...MARTIN...WAYNE...AND WILSON COUNTIES. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE SANDHILLS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH OF A LINE FROM SOUTHERN PINES TO FAYETTEVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR T.V. STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS. REPEATING...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM FOR SOUTHERN AND *EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...APPROXIMATELY SOUTHEAST OF A LINE FROM MONROE TO SOUTHERN PINES TO ROCKY MOUNT TO ELIZABETH CITY. THIS MEANS SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE IN THIS AREA UNTIL 7 PM. ARKELL
Special weather statement, Mar 27, 3:22 PM EST, 9 minutes before
NCZALL-280000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 320 PM EST SAT MAR 27 1993 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA UNTIL 7 PM... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON FOR MUCH OF EASTERN AND SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS BEGAIN DEVELOPING EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM. AT 315 MPH...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN HARNETT AND LEE COUNTIES IN THE NORTHERN SANDHILLS. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THESE STORMS. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 30 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO BETWEEN PITTSBORO AND APEX BY 400 PM. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER THE CjENTRAL COASTAL PLAINS. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. ARKELL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 3:37 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 68 min |
| Mar 27, 4:02 PM EST | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 58 min |
| Mar 27, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Halifax | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 4:29 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Northampton | 61 min |
| Mar 27, 4:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville | 67 min |
| Mar 27, 5:32 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Northampton | 58 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1993Every 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.