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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 184, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 27, 1995Durham County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT for Durham County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 27, 1995, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Oct 27, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Durham County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1995-10-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 113 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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

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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, Oct 27, 5:32 PM EDT, 57 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, 56 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, 6:17 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
617 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 615PM      HILLSBORO                NC        0.75 INCH HAIL
            ORANGE                             LOCATION BETWEEN HBORO
                                               EFLAND TO WEST
Local storm report, Oct 27, 6:19 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
617 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 615PM      HILLSBORO    T            NC        0.75 INCH HAIL
            ORANGE                             LOCATION BETWEEN HBORO
                                               EFLAND TO WEST
Local storm report, Oct 27, 6:27 PM EDT, 2 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
627 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 525PM      NEAR JULIAN              NC        BROAD SWATH OF WIND
            SE GUILFORD CO                     DAMAGE...TREES/POWER
                                               LINES DOWN.
Local storm report, Oct 27, 6:28 PM EDT, 1 minute before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
627 PM EDT FRI OCT 27 1995

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....
 525PM      NEAR JULIAN              NC        BROAD SWATH OF WIND
            SE GUILFORD CO                     DAMAGE...TREES/POWER
                                               LINES DOWN.

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 27, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGuilford30 min
Oct 27, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAlamance41 min
Oct 27, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHAnson, Montgomery44 min
Oct 27, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHPerson39 min
Oct 27, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHGranville33 min
Oct 27, 7:18 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHVance27 min
Oct 27, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHWarren28 min
Oct 27, 7:57 PM EDTTornado WarningRAHVance9 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.