Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 178, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 18, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 30 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT (22:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Hoke County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 753 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -50 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 182231 RRA SVRRDU NCC093-182300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 630 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHA
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, Aug 18, 4:25 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
NCZ021-022-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 425 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FORSYTH COUNTY... AT 420 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER STOKES COUNTY NEAR KING MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FORSYTH COUNTY NEAR RURAL HALL. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... BRIEF GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE WINSTON-SALEM AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE STORMS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON ROAD SURFACES. RESIDENTS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PWB
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 4:26 PM EDT, 2 hours 4 minutes before
NCZ021-022-182115- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 425 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FORSYTH COUNTY... AT 420 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER STOKES COUNTY NEAR KING MOVING INTO NORTHWEST FORSYTH COUNTY NEAR RURAL HALL. THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS... BRIEF GUSTY WIND AND DANGEROUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE WINSTON-SALEM AREA BETWEEN 430 AND 500 PM. MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT THESE STORMS WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES AND CREATE PONDING OF WATER ON ROAD SURFACES. RESIDENTS SHOULD SEEK SAFE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS. PWB
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 5:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
NCZ040-041-075>077-086-088-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 525 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA MOVING SOUTH INTO THE SANDHILLS... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER SOUTHERN WAKE...WESTERN HARNETT...LEE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WIND TO 30 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR SANFORD IN LEE COUNTY AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LILLINGTON IN HARNETT COUNTY. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. LATE AFTERNOON MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT ANY OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCAL PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND REDUCE VISIBILITIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF EASTERN MOORE... CUMBERLAND AND HOKE COUNTIES BY 6 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS. PWB
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 5:26 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before
NCZ040-041-075>077-086-088-182215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 525 PM EDT FRI AUG 18 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA MOVING SOUTH INTO THE SANDHILLS... AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SCATTERED OVER SOUTHERN WAKE...WESTERN HARNETT...LEE AND CHATHAM COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE PRODUCING GUSTY WIND TO 30 MPH...HEAVY DOWNPOURS...AND OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING STRIKES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE NEAR SANFORD IN LEE COUNTY AND 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LILLINGTON IN HARNETT COUNTY. ALL THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE SOUTH AT 15 MPH. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD TAKE SHELTER INDOORS UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. LATE AFTERNOON MOTORISTS SHOULD BE AWARE THAT ANY OF THE STORMS WILL PRODUCE LOCAL PONDING OF WATER ON ROADWAYS AND REDUCE VISIBILITIES. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO PORTIONS OF EASTERN MOORE... CUMBERLAND AND HOKE COUNTIES BY 6 PM. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS. PWB
Nearby
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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.