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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 1, 1994Johnston County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1994, 7:46 PM EDT for Johnston County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 1, 1994, 7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)
Expired: May 1, 1994, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 29 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Johnston County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 152 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: 298 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 659 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 215 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.9

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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, May 1, 6:58 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
656 PM EDT SUN MAY 01 1994

TIME           EVENT

640 PM EDT     HARNETT COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA...DIME SIZE HAIL
               JUST WEST OF LILLINGTON REPORTED BY SHERIFF`S OFFICE.
HLW

Local storm report, May 1, 7:11 PM EDT, 35 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
709 PM EDT SUN MAY 01 1994

TIME           EVENT

616 PM EDT     PITT COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA...QUARTER SIZE HAIL FELL
               IN FALKLAND IN NORTHERN PITT...REPORTED BY SHERIFF`S
               OFFICE.

KK

Local storm report, May 1, 7:27 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
727 PM EDT SUN MAY 01 1994

TIME           EVENT

700 PM EDT     EDGECOMBE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA...DIME SIZE HAIL
               REPORTED BY EDGECOMBE COUNTY NAWAS AT 7 PM.

JC

        OFFICE.

KK

Local storm report, May 1, 7:29 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
727 PM EDT SUN MAY 01 1994

TIME           EVENT

700 PM EDT     EDGECOMBE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA...DIME SIZE HAIL
               REPORTED BY EDGECOMBE COUNTY NAWAS AT 7 PM.

JC

Local storm report, May 1, 7:42 PM EDT, 4 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
May 1, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	35 min
May 1, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	54 min
May 1, 5:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	38 min
May 1, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	36 min
May 1, 5:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	46 min
May 1, 5:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	25 min
May 1, 6:07 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	23 min
May 1, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	29 min
May 1, 6:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe	35 min
May 1, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	25 min
May 1, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	37 min
May 1, 7:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Harnett, Johnston	26 min

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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.