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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 4, 1993Wayne County, Wilson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 1993, 9:07 PM EDT for Wayne County, Wilson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 1993, 9:07 PM EDT (01:07 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 1993, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

Counties Wayne County, NC, Wilson County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Cape Hatteras, NC (KHAT), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cape Hatteras, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-06-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1149 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Cape Hatteras, NC at 00:00Z on 1993-06-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 57 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1083 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
5.1

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The text

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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, 8:43 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC
835 PM EDT FRI JUN 4 1993

ATTN SELS...

712 PM EDT..2312 Z TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN CASWELL COUNTY.

721 PM EDT..2321 Z 3/4 INCH HAIL IN DAVIDSON COUNTY.

736 PM EDT..2336 Z 3/4 INCH HAIL IN DAVIDSON COUNTY NEAR LEXINGTON.

743 PM EDT..2343 Z 3 TREES DOWN IN DAVIE COUNTY.

746 PM EDT..2346 Z POWER LINES DOWN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY.

753 PM EDT..2353 Z SEVERAL TREES DOWN IN DAVIDSON COUNTY.

755 PM EDT..2355 Z CARS BLOWN OFF ROAD IN RANDOLPH COUNTY..FUNNEL CLOUD
                   SPOTTED IN THE AREA.
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805 PM EDT..0005 Z DIME SIZED HAIL IN SOUTHERN ALAMANCE COUNTY.

815 PM EDT..0015 Z NICKEL TO QUARTER SIZED HAIL IN SOUTHERN ALAMANCE.

825 PM EDT..0025 Z TREES DOWN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY..ASSOCIATED WITH
                   TORNADO.

827 PM EDT..0027 Z TREES DOWN IN RANDOLPH COUNTY EAST OF SEA GROVE
                   NEAR HIGHWAY 42.

GTR
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDT, 24 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
841 PM EDT FRI JUN 04 1993

TIME           EVENT
840 EDT        TREES DOWN IN SEVERAL DIFFERENT PARTS OF GREENE COUNTY
               OCCURRING WITHIN THE LAST 30 MINUTES.  REPORTED BY
               GREENE COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS.

840 EDT        FUNNEL CLOUD ON MILLBROOK ROAD AND WAKE FOREST ROAD
               INTERSECTION OF NORTH RALEIGH MOVING NORTHEAST.
               REPORTED BY WAKE COUNTY EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS.

RFG
Local storm report, Jun 4, 8:45 PM EDT, 22 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jun 4, 9:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 8:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt58 min
Jun 4, 8:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston56 min
Jun 4, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGreene, Wayne68 min
Jun 4, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Orange49 min
Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake55 min
Jun 4, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee55 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLenoir61 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHChatham, Moore62 min
Jun 4, 8:43 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHLee55 min
Jun 4, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston67 min
Jun 4, 8:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett47 min
Jun 4, 9:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGreene, Lenoir, Pitt45 min
Jun 5, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt45 min
Jun 5, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville53 min
Jun 5, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne32 min
Jun 5, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGreene52 min
Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin45 min
Jun 5, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt63 min
Jun 5, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore58 min
Jun 5, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash63 min
Jun 5, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin37 min
Jun 5, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke45 min
Jun 5, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGreene37 min
Jun 5, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe59 min
Jun 5, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland30 min
Jun 5, 7:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland41 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.