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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 27, 1995Alamance County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 5:34 PM EDT for Alamance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 41 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 5:34 PM EDT (21:34 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Alamance County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 113 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 201 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 272136 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC001-272215-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST/EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
534 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...ALAMANCE COUNTY
 
AT 534 PM WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN EXTREME
NORTHEAST RANDOLPH COUNTY NEAR LIBERTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY
NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH ALAMANCE COUNTY ALONG HIGHWAY
49 THROUGH 615 PM. LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM.
 
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.
$

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, Oct 27, 12:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1210 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON
AND TONIGHT...

A STRONG COLD FRONT OVER THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WILL MOVE EAST THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS AHEAD OF THE SYSTEM
WILL RETURN WARM...MOIST AIR TO THE OLD NORTH STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.  AS A RESULT...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO
DEVELOP OVER THE STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.  THE COMBINATION
OF AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS COULD CAUSE SOME
STORMS TO BECOME SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  THE
GREATEST THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER IS OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE
STATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  OVER THE EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE
STATE...SEVERE WEATHER IS POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH THE
NIGHT TONIGHT.

PERSONS IN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD MONITOR THIS SITUATION CLOSELY AND
THOSE IN THE EASTERN TWO-THIRDS OF THE STATE SHOULD BE ALERT TO THE
POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE WEATHER DURING THE HOURS WHEN PEOPLE ARE
NORMALLY SLEEPING.

LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

RAN

Special weather statement, Oct 27, 3:36 PM EDT, 1 hour 58 minutes before

NCZ022-039-272045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
336 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE NORTHWEST
PIEDMONT...

AT 330 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE'S DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHWEST RANDOLPH COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING
TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILL LIKELY TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS
TO 35 MPH ...VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS ...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. THIS STORM
WILL BE ENTERING INTO SOUTHERN GUILFORD COUNTY BY 400 PM.

SHOULD THREATENING WEATHER APPROACH TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION.

KRC/RAN

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:18 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
518 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 510PM      GREENSBORO               NC        0.75 INCH HAIL
            GUILFORD                           LOCATION BETWEEN  NW
                                               GBORO AND KERNERSVILLE

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:25 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
525 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 515PM      N OF ROXBORO             NC        TREES DOWN..BARN ROOF
            PERSON                             TORN OFF.

 520PM      GREENSBORO               NC         GOLF BALL HAIL
            GUILFORD

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:32 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
532 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 525PM      GREENSBORO               NC        1.00 INCH HAIL
            GUILFORD                           LOCATION SE OF GBORO
                                               NR ALAMANCE CO BORDER

Local storm report, Oct 27, 5:33 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
532 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 525PM      GREENSBORO                NC        1.00 INCH HAIL
            GUILFORD                           LOCATION SE OF GBORO
                                               NR ALAMANCE CO BORDER

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 27, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford	30 min
Oct 27, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson, Montgomery	44 min
Oct 27, 6:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Person	39 min
Oct 27, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	31 min
Oct 27, 6:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville	33 min
Oct 27, 7:18 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Vance	27 min
Oct 27, 7:47 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Warren	28 min
Oct 27, 7:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Vance	9 min

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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.