Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 7:23 PM EDT for Nash County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 1993, 7:23 PM EDT (23:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 1993, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Nash County, NC, Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 774 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -130 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1204 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
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
Local storm report, Jun 4, 6:54 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
654 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993
ATTN SELS...
638 PM EDT..2238 Z DAVIE COUNTY AUTHORITIES REPORTED 3 AND A HALF INCH
HAIL.
GTR
ORITIES REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
DOWN.
GTRLocal storm report, Jun 4, 6:54 PM EDT, 29 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
654 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993
ATTN SELS...
638 PM EDT..2238 Z DAVIE COUNTY AUTHORITIES REPORTED 3 AND A HALF INCH
HAIL.
GTR
ORITIES REPORTED SEVERAL TREES
DOWN.
GTRLocal storm report, Jun 4, 7:10 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 710 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ATTN SELS... 705 PM EDT..2305 Z IRDELL COUNTY AUTHORITIES REPORTED BASEBALL SIZED HAIL. GTR
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 710 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993 ATTN SELS... 705 PM EDT..2305 Z IRDELL COUNTY AUTHORITIES REPORTED BASEBALL SIZED HAIL. GTR
Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:13 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
713 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993
TIME EVENT
712 EDT TREES DOWN ON GUESS ROAD 4 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF
DURHAM IN NORTHERN DURHAM COUNTY. REPORTED BY AMATEUR
RADIO.
RFGLocal storm report, Jun 4, 7:14 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
713 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993
TIME EVENT
712 EDT TREES DOWN ON GUESS ROAD 4 MILES NORTH OF THE CITY OF
DURHAM IN NORTHLERN DURHAM COUNTY. REPORTED BY AMATEUR
RADIO.
RFGThe office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Vance, Warren | 55 min |
| Jun 4, 6:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Warren | 38 min |
| Jun 4, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 46 min |
| Jun 4, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Halifax, Northampton | 64 min |
| Jun 4, 6:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 54 min |
| Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Granville, Vance | 58 min |
| Jun 4, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Halifax | 34 min |
| Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Orange | 35 min |
| Jun 4, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Chatham, Durham | 45 min |
| Jun 4, 7:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wake | 53 min |
| Jun 4, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Edgecombe | 65 min |
| Jun 4, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Franklin, Nash | 42 min |
| Jun 4, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Wilson | 55 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.