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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 147, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 16, 1995Guilford County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT for Guilford County, North Carolina. It was in force for 27 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 3:18 PM EDT (19:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Guilford County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 10 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 161919 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC081-161945-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
318 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  345 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...GUILFORD COUNTY
 
AT 315 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM OVER GUILFORD COUNTY... NEAR HIGHWAY 70 IN THE EASTERN PART
OF THE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT.
 
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
 
GIH

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, 4 hours 3 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, 4 hours 2 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

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:36 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
236 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

TIME           EVENT
 APPROX
 200 PM EDT    FORSYTH COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN IN
               WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY.

GIH

Local storm report, Jul 16, 2:37 PM EDT, 41 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
236 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

TIME           EVENT
 APPROX
 200 PM EDT    FORSYTH COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN IN
        L       WESTERN FORSYTH COUNTY.

GIH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	29 min
Jul 16, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	28 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, 1995 Every 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.