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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 194, NWS Raleigh, NC

November 11, 1995Halifax County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 11, 1995, 7:40 PM EST for Halifax County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 11, 1995, 7:40 PM EST (00:40 UTC)
Expired
Nov 11, 1995, 8:15 PM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Halifax County, NC

The radar

The Norfolk radar (KAKQ), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 0.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-11-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 416 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Newport, NC at 00:00Z on 1995-11-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 305 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
416 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
777 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
305 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
414 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
5.7

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 11, 7:30 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHEdgecombe45 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.