Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 15, 1994, 4:04 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 15, 1994, 4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 15, 1994, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Scotland County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 143 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 52 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 152003 SVRRDU NCC165-152030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 404 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...SCOTLAND COUNTY AT 400 PM RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO SOUTHERN SCOTLAND COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH AND WILL PASS NEAR LAURINBURG BY 415 PM. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, Apr 15, 11:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 39 minutes before
NCZALL-151900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 1125 AM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA EXCEPT EXTREME SOUTHWEST THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST NORTH CAROLINA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. LISTEN TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR WEAT6HER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RA
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:05 PM EDT, 59 minutes before
NCZ004>006-020>023-036>039-057-152030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 305 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ENTERED THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA... AT 300 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...SOUTH AND WEST OF THE TRIAD IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER SALISBURY IN ROWAN COUTNY AND JUST SOUTH OF LEXINGTON IN DAVIDSON COUNTY. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD ACROSS THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT TONIGHT. SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL. ALL PERSONS IN THE NORTHWEST PIEDMONT ARE ADVISED TO REMAIN ALERT FOR CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS...AND TO SEEK SAFE SHELTER IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. JSN
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:17 PM EDT, 47 minutes before
NCZ007>012-024>028-040>044-075>079-085-086-088-091-152100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 315 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 ...LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING SCOTLAND...HOKE...AND MOORE COUNTIES IN THE SANDHILLS... AT 315 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN EXTENDING FROM SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA INTO NORTHERN SOUTH CAROLINA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO SCOTLAND...HOKE AND MOORE COUNTIES BY 400 PM. VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND SMALL HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN OCCUR WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. IF A STORM APPROACHES...SEEK A SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. . HARTFIELD
Special weather statement, Apr 15, 3:41 PM EDT, 23 minutes before
NCZALL-160500- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 340 PM EDT FRI APR 15 1994 THE NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND FOOTHILLS OF NORTH CAROLINA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND FOR TONIGHT. A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER THE REST OF NORTH CAROLINA THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...TELEVISION OR RADIO FOR LATER INFORMATION OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. HARTFIELD
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.