Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 1, 1995, 10:34 PM EDT for Stanly County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 1, 1995, 10:34 PM EDT (02:34 UTC)
- Expired
- May 1, 1995, 11:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Stanly County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 00:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 863 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 276 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 565 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 020237 COR SVRRDU NCC167-020315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1034 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1115 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...STANLY COUNTY WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO STANLY COUNTY FROM CABARRUS COUNTY. THIS STORM PRODUCED LARGE HAIL IN CABARRUS COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ALTHOUGH NO TORNADOES HAVE BEEN DETECTED WITH THIS STORM, A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT. TORNADOES CAN DEVELOP WITHOUT WARNING FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. NOISE LIKE A ROARING TRAIN MAY BE YOUR ONLY CLUE OF AN APPROACHING TORNADO. TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. $$ ...CORRECTION TO INCLUDE EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED...
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, May 1, 9:49 PM EDT, 45 minutes before
NCZ057-020545- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 940 PM EDT MON MAY 1 1995 ...A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 300 AM EDT FOR ROWAN COUNTY IN NORTH CAROLINA... AT 920 PM EDT..THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST IN KANSAS CITY HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PARTS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. THIS INCLUDES THE COUNTY OF ROWAN. AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS AND SEVERE WEATHER SPOTTER GROUPS ARE REQUESTED TO RELAY STORM INFORMATION TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. ALL PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY DAMAGING WEATHER TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. A TORNADO WATCH MEANS THAT CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE WEATH~ER. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL RADIO..TV..OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. MEC
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 11:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Anson | 48 min |
| May 1, 11:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Richmond | 26 min |
| May 2, 12:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 35 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.