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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 185, NWS Raleigh, NC

October 27, 1995Granville County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 27, 1995, 6:47 PM EDT for Granville County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 27, 1995, 6:47 PM EDT (22:47 UTC)
Expired: Oct 27, 1995, 7:20 PM EDT
In force: 33 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Granville County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 27, 7:10 PM EDT	Tornado F2	Corinth, NC	A tornado touched in the community of Corinth. Numerous large trees were downed and a new home lost its roof. Numerous barns and farm outbuildings were destroyed. At the intersection of Highway 96 and SR 1643, a home was damaged when a large tree was blown on

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 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: 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

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 1 hour 15 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 hour 14 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, 30 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, 28 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, 20 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, 19 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.

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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, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Alamance	41 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, 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

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.