Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 68, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 26, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Nash County, North Carolina. It was in force for 50 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 1995, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, NC, Nash County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 159 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
- 91 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1162 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 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 262055 SVRRDU NCC069-127-262145- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 455 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...NORTHEASTERN FRANKLIN COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA ...NORTHWESTERN NASH COUNTY AT 450 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM IN CENTERVILLE AT 445 PM. THE STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WAS MOVING INTO NORTHWEST NASH COUNTY. 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. &
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 26, 4:04 PM EDT, 51 minutes before
NCZ010-262045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 405 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 1995 ...STRONG STORM OVER CENTRAL WARREN COUNTY... AT 400 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER WARREN COUNTY NEAR WARRENTON. THIS STORM WAS DRIFTING SOUTHEAST AROUND 15 MPH. SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS. HARTFIELD
Special weather statement, May 26, 4:48 PM EDT, 7 minutes before
NCZ010-011-027-028-042-078-085-086-088-023-005-022-039-074-084- 021-038-036-262245- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 448 PM EDT FRI MAY 26 1995 AT 445 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL IN SOUTHEAST WARREN COUNTY AND NORTHEAST FRANKLIN COUNTY. PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM NEAR INEZ AT 430 PM ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHWEST NASH AND SOUTHWEST HALIFAX COUNTIES BY 5 PM. OTHER STORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER SCOTLAND...HOKE...CUMBERLAND...WAYNE AND JOHNSTON COUNTIES AND DRIFTING SOUTHEAST. ALSO...STRONG STORMS HAD DEVELOED OVER THE FOOTHILLS BETWEEN DANVILLE VIRGINIA AND HICKORY AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO THE TRIAD AREA BY 515 PM. PERSONS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STORMS WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED BUT BE PREPARED IF ONE MOVES INTO YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WATCHES AND WARNINGS. JBM
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.