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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 4, 1993Lee County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 8:20 PM EDT for Lee County, North Carolina. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 4, 1993, 8:20 PM EDT (00:20 UTC)
Expired: Jun 4, 1993, 9:15 PM EDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Lee County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 296 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: 2862 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -193 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 999 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.2

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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

Local storm report, Jun 4, 7:58 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:02 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:06 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:11 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:12 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:18 PM EDT, 2 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
Jun 4, 8:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	58 min
Jun 4, 8:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	56 min
Jun 4, 8:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene, Wayne	68 min
Jun 4, 8:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Orange	49 min
Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	55 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	61 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Chatham, Moore	62 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Lee	55 min
Jun 4, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	67 min
Jun 4, 8:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	47 min
Jun 4, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne, Wilson	68 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene, Lenoir, Pitt	45 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	45 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	53 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	32 min
Jun 5, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene	52 min
Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	45 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	63 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	58 min
Jun 5, 5:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	63 min
Jun 5, 6:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	37 min
Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	45 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene	37 min
Jun 5, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	59 min
Jun 5, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	30 min
Jun 5, 7:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	41 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.