Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 3, 1995, 3:56 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 49 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 3, 1995, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 3, 1995, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cumberland County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 739 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.9
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, Jul 3, 1:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
133 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995
TIME EVENT
133 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...2 WEST OF ROBBINS...SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...POSSIBLE TORNADO...LOAD ROARING WIND NOISE...
BUT NO FUNNEL SEEN BECAUSE OF HEAVY RAIN.
JBPLocal storm report, Jul 3, 1:37 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
133 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995
TIME EVENT
133 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...2 WEST OF ROBBINS...SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER
SIZE HAIL.N..POSSIBLE TORNADO...LOAD ROARING WIND NOISE...
BUT NO FUNNEL SEEN BECAUSE OF HEAVY RAIN.
JBPLocal storm report, Jul 3, 1:43 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED ...TYPO...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
143 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995
TIME EVENT
133 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...2 WEST OF ROBBINS...SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTER
SIZE HAIL...POSSIBLE TORNADO...LOUD ROARING WIND NOISE...
BUT NO FUNNEL SEEN BECAUSE OF HEAVY RAIN.
JBPLocal storm report, Jul 3, 1:44 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT CORRECTED ...TYPO...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
143 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995
TIME EVENT
133 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...2 WEST OF ROBBINS...SPOTTER REPORTS QUARTERf
SIZE HAIL...POSSIBLE TORNADO...LOUD ROARING WIND NOISE...
BUT NO FUNNEL SEEN BECAUSE OF HEAVY RAIN.
JBPLocal storm report, Jul 3, 2:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 200 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995 TIME EVENT 155 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...ROBBINS AREA...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. JBP
Local storm report, Jul 3, 2:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC 200 PM EDT MON JUL 03 1995 TIME EVENT 155 PM EDT MOORE COUNTY...ROBBINS AREA...BASEBALL SIZE HAIL. JBP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 44 min |
| Jul 3, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham, Randolph | 49 min |
| Jul 3, 1:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore, Randolph | 40 min |
| Jul 3, 1:29 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 2:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Moore | 46 min |
| Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Hoke, Moore | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett | 43 min |
| Jul 3, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 42 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.