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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 149, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 16, 1995Granville County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 6:22 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 6:22 PM EDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 7:07 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Granville County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 115 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 162223 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC077-162330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
622 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...GRANVILLE COUNTY
 
AT 622 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
GRANVILLE COUNTY NEAR OAK HILL. THIS STORM WAS SHOWING VERY LITTLE
MOVEMENT AND MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW-LYING AREAS. IF YOU NEAR THIS
STORM SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
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.
 
DOWNBURST WINDS FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN SOMETIMES REACH 100
MPH.  A POWERFUL DOWNBURST CAN BE AS BAD AS A TORNADO.  THESE WINDS
DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...OVERTURN MOBILE HOMES...AND DAMAGE
BUILDINGS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGES PROMPTLY TO
EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEAT<HER 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

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 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, 1 hour 46 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

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT
405-450 PM EDT RANDOLPH COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES/
               POWER LINES DOWN FROM TRINITY SOUTHEAST TO SOPHIA.

RLH

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 minutes before

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

TIME           EVENT
405-450 PM EDT RANDOLPH COUNTY. SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT REPORTED TREES/
               POWER LINES DOWN FROM TRINITY SOUTHEAST TO SOPHIA.

RLH

Local storm report, Jul 16, 6:15 PM EDT, 7 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  GREENSBORO NC
615 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

ATTN SELS...

530- 600 PM EDT..... TREES REPORTED DOWN IN ROWAN COUNTY.
BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF GRANITE QUARRY AND FAITH.

REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER AND SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT

Local storm report, Jul 16, 6:17 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE  GREENSBORO NC
615 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995

ATTN SELS...

530- 600 PM EDT..... TREES REPORTED DOWN IN ROWAN COUNTY.
BETWEEN THE TOWNS OF GRANITE QUARRY AND FAITH.
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REPORTED BY SKYWARN SPOTTER AND SHERIFFS DEPARTMENT

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, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	67 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.