Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 127, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 17, 1994, 8:18 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 42 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 17, 1994, 8:18 PM EDT (00:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 17, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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
- 145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 799 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 15 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, Aug 17, 3:57 PM EDT, 4 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 17, 4:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
NCC005-193-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 400 PM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...A RIVER FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE YADKIN RIVER FROM WILKESBORO DOWNSTREAM TO HIGH ROCK LAKE... ALTHOUGH ONLY PATCHY LIGHT RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER THE AREA AND WATER IS SLOWLY RECEEDING...OFFICIALS IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND WILKES COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS REPORTED THAT A FEW ROADWAYS AND LOW-LYING AREAS REMAIN UNDER WATER THIS AFTERNOON. MANY CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE ALSO REPORTED TO BE AT OR OVER THEIR BANKS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS WHERE RUNNING WATER COVERS A ROAD. EVEN A RELATIVELY SHALL0OW CURRENT CAN LIFT A VEHICLE AND CARRY IT OFF A ROAD. MOST FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR IN MOTOR VEHICLES. ELJ ...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME AND TYPO...
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 4:07 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
NCC005-193-172300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 400 PM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...A RIVER FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE YADKIN RIVER FROM WILKESBORO DOWNSTREAM TO HIGH ROCK LAKE... ALTHOUGH ONLY PATCHY LIGHT RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED OVER THE AREA AND WATER IS SLOWLY RECEEDING...OFFICIALS IN ALLEGHANY COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS AND WILKES COUNTY IN THE NORTHERN FOOTHILLS REPORTED THAT A FEW ROADWAYS AND LOW-LYING AREAS REMAIN UNDER WATER THIS AFTERNOON. MANY CREEKS AND RIVERS ARE ALSO REPORTED TO BE AT OR OVER THEIR BANKS. IF YOU ARE DRIVING IN THE AREA...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS AREAS WHERE RUNNING WATER COVERS A ROAD. EVEN A2 RELATIVELY SHALLOW CURRENT CAN LIFT A VEHICLE AND CARRY IT OFF A ROAD. MOST FLOOD AND FLASH FLOOD FATALITIES OCCUR IN MOTOR VEHICLES. ELJ ...CORRECTED FOR EXPIRATION TIME AND TYPO...
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 8:05 PM EDT, 13 minutes before
NCZ007>012-024>028-040>044-075>079-085-086-088-091-171600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC 805 PM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT... AT 750 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EASTERN PERSON COUNTY AND GRANVILLE COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO LEE AND HARNETT COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF DURHAM...IN WESTERN WAKE COUNTY...AND NEAR THE LEE-HARNETT COUNTY BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS DURHAM...WAKE...HARNETT...GRANVILLE...VANCE AND FRANKIN COUNTIES BETWEEN 800 AND 900 PM. HEAVY SHOWERS AND VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. SGY
Special weather statement, Aug 17, 8:06 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
NCZ007>012-024>028-040>044-075>079-085-086-088-091-171600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC 805 PM EDT WED AUG 17 1994 ...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT... AT 750 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. THE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM EASTERN PERSON COUNTY AND GRANVILLE COUNTY SOUTHWARD TO LEE AND HARNETT COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE SOUTHEAST OF DURHAM...IN WESTERN WAKE COUNTY...AND NEAR THE LEE-HARNETT COUNTY BORDER. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS DURHAM...WAKE...HARNETT...GRANVILLE...VANCE AND FRANKIN COUNTIES BETWEEN 800 AND 900 PM. HEAVY SHOWERS AND VERY GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. SGY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 9:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Johnston | 27 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.