Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1995, 5:27 AM EDT for Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 1995, 5:27 AM EDT (09:27 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Nash County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 166 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 828 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 100929 SVRRDU NCC101-127-085-101000- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 527 AM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN EAST CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...JOHNSTON COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...SOUTHERN NASH COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...HARNETT COUNTY AT 525 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH SHOWED A LINE OF VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO HARNETT...EASTERN WAKE AND SOUTHERN NASH COUNTIES. THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. RA
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, May 10, 5:14 AM EDT, 13 minutes before
NCZALL-101030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 510 AM EDT WED MAY 10 1995 AT 5:00 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPLER RADAR AT RALEIGH SHOWED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING NORTHEAST FROM SOUTHEAST MONTGOMERY COUNTY...THROUGH MOORE...LEE...EASTERN CHATHAM AND WAKE COUNTIES. THE LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...HEAVY DOW^NPOURS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTING. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO RESULT IN SOME URBAN FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. CONTINUE TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO...TELEVISION...OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RHJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 3:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 36 min |
| May 10, 5:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 33 min |
| May 10, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wilson | 30 min |
| May 10, 6:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Harnett, Johnston | 37 min |
| May 10, 12:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 25 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.