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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Raleigh, NC

May 19, 1995Hoke County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 19, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT for Hoke County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 19, 1995, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
Expired: May 19, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Hoke County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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: 119 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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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, May 19, 10:38 AM EDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before

STORM REPORT CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1037 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

TIME           EVENT
1030 AM EDT     FROM HOKE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR...TORNADO DAMAGE
               ACROSS THE COUNTY FROM STATE ROADS #401 AND #1207 EASTWARD
               TO NEAR STATE ROAD 211.  NUMEROUS TREES DOWN...SOME ACROSS
                HOUSES.  DAMAGE TO SEVERAL MOBIL HOMES IN THE PUPPY CREEK
                MOBIL HOME PARK IN THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF COUNTY.

WJB

Local storm report, May 19, 10:42 AM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1039 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

TIME           EVENT
1034 AM EDT    WAYNE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT...POSSIBLR TORNADO REPORTED
               FIREMAN NEAR THE TOWN OF GRANTHAM IN THE SOUTHWEST PORTION
               OF COUNTY.

WJB

Special weather statement, May 19, 11:53 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

NCZ089-191645-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1150 AM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

AT 1153 AM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH INDICATED A
STRONG LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WAS AFFECTING SOUTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY.
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE
PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND RAINS WITH LIGHTNING.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER
PIMMEDIATELY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO TODAY TO RECIEVE UP TO THE
MINUTE INFORMATION ON THE CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.

JWC

Special weather statement, May 19, 2:13 PM EDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before

NCZ040-023-022-039-074-073-191915-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
211 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT...

AT 208 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER RANDOLPH AND DAVIDSON COUNTIES. OTHER
STRONG THUNDESTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO STANLEY COUNTY. THESE STORMS
ARE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY
WINDS...SMALL HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING INTO ALAMANCE...CHATHAM...AND
MONTGOMERY COUNTIES BY 230 PM. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS YOU SHOULD BE
PREPARED TO TAKE PROTECTIVFE ACTION SHOULD A WARNING BE ISSUED.

COOK

Special weather statement, May 19, 3:43 PM EDT, 12 minutes before

NCZ041-192045-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
340 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

AT 340 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO WAKE COUNTY NEAR APEX AND MOVING TOWARD
THE EAST AT ABOUT 40 MPH. THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG
GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAINS WITH LIGHTNING.

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORMS SEEK SAFE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

JWC

Local storm report, May 19, 3:51 PM EDT, 4 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
349 PM EDT FRI MAY 19 1995

TIME           EVENT
350 PM EDT     MOORE COUNTY...3/4 INCH HAIL IN SOUTHERN PINES REPORTED
               BY EMERGENCY MANEGEMENT.

KRC

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 19, 5:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	39 min
May 19, 5:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Guilford, Randolph	40 min
May 19, 6:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham, Orange	40 min
May 19, 6:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	39 min
May 19, 6:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson, Guilford, Randolph	44 min
May 19, 6:35 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wake	40 min
May 19, 6:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Granville, Vance	47 min
May 19, 7:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	38 min
May 19, 7:28 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Randolph	47 min
May 19, 7:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Granville, Vance	51 min
May 19, 7:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	31 min
May 19, 8:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham, Wake	41 min
May 19, 9:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	38 min
May 19, 9:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	26 min
May 19, 10:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Sampson	38 min
May 19, 10:21 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wayne	39 min
May 19, 10:28 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Sampson, Wayne	32 min
May 19, 10:41 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	RAH	Wayne	23 min
May 19, 2:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Stanly	51 min
May 19, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Montgomery	28 min
May 19, 3:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Moore	47 min
May 19, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	32 min
May 19, 4:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	54 min
May 19, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond	27 min
May 19, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	45 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.