Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 145, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 29 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 16, 1995, 1:46 PM EDT (17:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 16, 1995, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forsyth County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1864 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 982 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 5 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, Jul 16, 11:15 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
NCZALL-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1115 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...HEAT OF SUMMER CONTINUES IN NORTH CAROLINA... THE HOTTEST WEATHER OF THE SUMMER HAS MOVED INTO NORTH CAROLINA. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL PUSH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 90S ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH MONDAY. COUPLED WITH HIGH HUMIDITIES...CONDITIONS WILL BE RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE. HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED APPROACH 105 DEGREES IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX IS A MEASURE OF HOW HOT IT FEELS WHEN THE EFFECTS OF HUMIDITY ARE COMBINED WITH THE TEMPERATURE. WHEN THE HEAT INDEX REACHES OR EXCEEDS 105 DEGREES...MANY PEOPLE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE EXTREME DISCOMFORT OR PHYSICAL DISTRESS. KEEP IN MIND THAT HEAT INDEX IS MEASURED IN THE SHADE. DIRECT EXPOSURE TO THE SUN COULD INCREASE THAT BY AS MUCH AS 15 DEGREES. WHILE HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEAR CRITICAL VALUES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME...YOU SHOULD STILL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE HEAT. REDUCE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. WEAR LIGHT COLORED...LIGHT WEIGHT CLOTHING. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER OR OTHER NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. LIMIT YOUR EXPOSURE TO THE SUN. YOUNG CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH HEAT SO BE SURE TO MONITOR THEIR CONDITIONS. GET THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. RAN
Special weather statement, Jul 16, 11:16 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
NCZALL-170000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1115 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995 ...HEAT OF SUMMER CONTINUES IN NORTH CAROLINA... THE HOTTEST WEATHER OF THE SUMMER HAS MOVED INTO NORTH CAROLINA. STRONG HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES WILL PUSH AFTERNOON TEMPERATURES WELL INTO THE 90S ACROSS THE STATE THROUGH MONDAY. COUPLED WITH HIGH HUMIDITIES...CONDITIONS WILL BE RATHER UNCOMFORTABLE. HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE EXPECTED APPROACH 105 DEGREES IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN PARTS OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON. HEAT INDEX IS A MEASURE OF HOW HOT IT FEELS WHEN THE EFFECTS OF HUMIDITY ARE COMBINED WITH THE TEMPERATURE. WHEN THE HEAT INDEX REACHES OR EXCEEDS 105 DEGREES...MANY PEOPLE BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE EXTREME DISCOMFORT OR PHYSICAL DISTRESS. KEEP IN MIND THAT HEAT INDEX IS MEASURED IN THE SHADE. DIRECT EXPOSURE TO THE SUN COULD INCREASE THAT BY AS MUCH AS 15 DEGREES. WHILE HEAT INDEX VALUES ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE NEAR CRITICAL VALUES FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME...YOU SHOULD STILL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THE HEAT. REDUCE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES. WEAR LIGHT COLORED...LIGHT WEIGHT CLOTHING. DRINK PLENTY OF WATER OR OTHER NON-ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES. LIMIT YOUR EXPOSURE TO THE SUN. YOUNG CHILDREN AND THE ELDERLY ARE ESPECIALLY SUSCEPTIBLE TO HIGH HEAT SO BE SURE TO MONITOR THEIR CONDITIONS. GET THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION BY LISTENING TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR TO LOCAL RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS. RAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 28 min |
| Jul 16, 3:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Guilford | 27 min |
| Jul 16, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Randolph | 67 min |
| Jul 16, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 45 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.