Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 23, 1995, 6:38 PM EST for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 23, 1995, 6:38 PM EST (23:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 23, 1995, 7:15 PM EST
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sampson County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 138 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
- 1615 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 275 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 5:01 PM EST, 1 hour 37 minutes before
NCC007-153-165-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 502 PM EST THU MAR 23 1995 AT 500 PM THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ANSON...RICHMOND AND SCOTLAND COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE AND THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GLD
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 5:02 PM EST, 1 hour 36 minutes before
NCC007-153-165-232300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 502 PM EST THU MAR 23 1995 AT 500 PM THIS AFTERNOON WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER ANSON...RICHMOND AND SCOTLAND COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AS THEY MOVE ACROSS SOUTHERN NORTH CAROLINA. IF YOU ARE OUTSIDE AND THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. STAY TUNED TO THIS STATION FOR FURTHER UPDATES. GLD
Special weather statement, Mar 23, 6:36 PM EST, 2 minutes before
NCC037-085-101-163-165-183-240045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 636 PM EST THU MAR 23 1995 AT 630 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WESTERN SCOTAND COUNTY. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND HAIL. ANOTHER STRONG STORM WAS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA. PEA TO MARBLE SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS. BE PREPARED TO MOVE INSIDE IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. GLD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 23, 5:24 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Scotland | 36 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.