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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 148, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 16, 1995Randolph County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 4:38 PM EDT for Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 4:38 PM EDT (20:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 67 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Randolph County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:46 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 42 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

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 16, 2:36 PM EDT, 2 hours 2 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, 2 hours 1 minute 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

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:30 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:34 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:35 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT
430 PM EDT     DAVIDSON COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN
               ABOUT 2 MILES NORTH OF LEXINGTON.

RAN

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:36 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT
430 PM EDT     DAVIDSON COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES DOWN
               ABOUT 2 MIL

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, 3:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	27 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.