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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 27, 1994Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1994, 9:25 AM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 27, 1994, 9:25 AM EDT (13:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 1994, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 50 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 602 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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, Jun 27, 8:44 AM EDT, 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 27, 8:48 AM EDT, 37 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:02 AM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:09 AM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 27, 9:10 AM EDT, 15 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
Jun 27, 6:17 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	43 min
Jun 27, 6:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Lee	44 min
Jun 27, 7:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Orange	42 min
Jun 27, 7:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Person	54 min
Jun 27, 7:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	45 min
Jun 27, 7:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	49 min
Jun 27, 8:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Warren	40 min
Jun 27, 8:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	48 min
Jun 27, 9:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	30 min
Jun 27, 10:33 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wayne	42 min
Jun 27, 10:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene, Lenoir	48 min
Jun 27, 10:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wilson	43 min
Jun 27, 10:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Pitt	50 min
Jun 27, 11:03 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Edgecombe, Wilson	42 min
Jun 27, 11:13 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Pitt	62 min
Jun 27, 11:25 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Greene	35 min
Jun 27, 11:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Lenoir	32 min
Jun 27, 11:47 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Halifax, Northampton	43 min
Jun 27, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lenoir	50 min
Jun 27, 12:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Pitt	51 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.