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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 17, 1994Pitt County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 1994, 2:26 PM EDT for Pitt County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 17, 1994, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
Expired: Jun 17, 1994, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Pitt County, NC

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 17, 12:11 PM EDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 17, 12:15 PM EDT, 2 hours 11 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:16 PM EDT, 10 minutes before

NCZ011>013-027>030-042>044-078-079-091-171930-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
216 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1994

AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PITT
COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENVILLE. OTHER VERY STRONG STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA IN CRAVEN AND JONES COUNTIES.
THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO LENOIR COUNTY AROUND 3 PM. MOVEMENT OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE AREAS MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS SHOULD WARNINGS BE REQUIRED.

MLM

Special weather statement, Jun 17, 2:22 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

NCZ011>013-027>030-042>044-078-079-091-171930-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
216 PM EDT FRI JUN 17 1994

AT 215 PM WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN PITT
COUNTY ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GREENVILLE. OTHER VERY STRONG STORMS
WERE LOCATED IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA IN CRAVEN AND JONES COUNTIES.
THESE STORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO LENOIR COUNTY AROUND 3 PM. MOVEMENT OF
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WAS SOUTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

PEOPLE IN THE AREAS MENTIONED ABOVE SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THESE STORMS
AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS SHOULD WARNINGS BE REQUIRED.

MLM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 8:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Person	40 min
Jun 16, 8:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	41 min
Jun 16, 9:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	45 min
Jun 16, 9:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Vance, Warren	46 min
Jun 17, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	29 min
Jun 17, 4:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	43 min
Jun 17, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	36 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1994 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

Sources

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