Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 1993, 8:27 PM EDT for Edgecombe County, Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 1993, 8:27 PM EDT (00:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 1993, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Edgecombe County, NC, Nash County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 190 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
- 2380 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 742 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
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 24, 6:37 PM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NCZ009-242330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 635 PM EDT MON JUL 19 1993 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS... AT 630 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CROSSING THE VIRGINIA/NORTH CAROLINA BORDER INTO ALLEGHANY COUNTY. THIS STORM IS MOVING SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AT 5 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DEADLY LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND DUE TO ITS SLOW MOVEMhENT FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THIS STORM SEEK SHELTER IN A REINFORCED BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GTR
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:06 PM EDT, 21 minutes before
NCC065-127-250115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 806 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 AT 805 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY NEAR ROCKY MOUNT. THIS STORM HAS BEEN STATIONARY OVER WESTERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY FOR NEARLY ONE HOUR AND CONTINUES TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. EDGECOMBE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING IN ROCKY MOUNT. PERSONS IN AND NEAR ROCKY MOUNT SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND STREET FLOODING. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 8:08 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NCC065-127-250115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 806 PM EDT SAT JUL 24 1993 AT 805 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A THUNDERSTORM OVER WESTERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY NEAR ROCKY MOUNT. THIS STORM HAS BEEN STATIONARY OVER WESTERN EDGECOMBE COUNTY FOR NEARLY ONE HOUR AND CONTINUES TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. EDGECOMBE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD REPORTED SOME STREET FLOODING IN ROCKY MOUNT. PERSONS IN AND NEAR ROCKY MOUNT SHOULD BE ALERT FOR HEAVY RAINFALL AND STREET FLOODING. THIS STORM MAY ALSO PRODUCE SMALL HAIL ALONG WITH DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 8:27 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RAH | Edgecombe, Nash | 63 min |
Nearby
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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.