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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 3, 1995Cumberland County, North Carolina

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-07-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 351 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
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

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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, 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.

JBP
Local 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.

JBP
Local 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.

JBP
Local 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.

JBP
Local 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 3, 11:31 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRandolph44 min
Jul 3, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham, Randolph49 min
Jul 3, 1:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore, Randolph40 min
Jul 3, 1:29 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMoore46 min
Jul 3, 2:14 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHMoore46 min
Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke, Moore43 min
Jul 3, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett43 min
Jul 3, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson42 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.