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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 29, 1994Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 1994, 12:41 AM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 29, 1994, 12:41 AM EDT (04:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 1994, 1:15 AM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 4.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1994-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 266 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 00:00Z on 1994-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 4 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
266 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-99 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1473 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 11:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHScotland29 min
Jun 29, 1:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett26 min
Jun 29, 1:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston45 min
Jun 29, 2:29 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash, Wilson46 min
Jun 29, 3:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGreene, Pitt34 min
Jun 29, 4:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPitt56 min
Jun 29, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore49 min
Jun 29, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett, Lee, Moore64 min
Jun 29, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake60 min
Jun 29, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston44 min
Jun 29, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland25 min
Jun 29, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash63 min
Jun 29, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHOrange38 min
Jun 29, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin30 min
Jun 29, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWayne, Wilson57 min
Jun 29, 7:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson61 min
Jun 29, 7:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe64 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.