Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 1995, 11:30 AM EDT for Forsyth County, North Carolina. It was in force for 45 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 2, 1995, 11:30 AM EDT (15:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 2, 1995, 12:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Forsyth County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 1139 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 497 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 021531 RRA SVRRDU NCC067-021615- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1130 AM EDT FRI JUN 2 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...FORSYTH COUNTY AT 1130 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH SHOWED A VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN FORSYTH COUNTY NEAR CLEMONS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 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, Jun 2, 11:23 AM EDT, 7 minutes before
NCC007-051-081-123-125-151-153-165-167-021630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1123 AM EDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1120 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SOUTH-CENTRAL SECTIONS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SCOTLAND...RICHMOND AND ANSON COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST SCOTLAND COUNTY. ALSO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN PIEDMONT IN THE CHARLOTTE AND GREENSBORO AREAS. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. RA
Special weather statement, Jun 2, 11:24 AM EDT, 6 minutes before
NCC007-051-081-123-125-151-153-165-167-021630- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 1123 AM EDT FRI JUN 2 1995 ...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA... AT 1120 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN RALEIGH SHOWED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE SOUTH-CENTRAL SECTIONS. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO SCOTLAND...RICHMOND AND ANSON COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER SOUTHEAST SCOTLAND COUNTY. ALSO SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN PIEDMONT IN THE CHARLOTTE AND GREENSBORO AREAS. ALL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 15 MPH. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. RA
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.