Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 6:05 PM EDT for Randolph County, North Carolina. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:05 PM EDT (22:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Randolph County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 374 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -123 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1316 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 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 082204 RRA SVRRDU NCC151-082230- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 605 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...RANDOLPH COUNTY AT 605 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH CENTRAL RANDOLPH COUNTY NEAR LEVEL CROSS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND. FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A DANGER WITH ANY THUNDERfSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. GIH
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 8, 5:15 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
NCZ007-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH-DURHAM NC 515 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF WOODSDALE. THE STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF PERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 600 PM. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ANYONE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. SGY
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 5:17 PM EDT, 48 minutes before
NCZ007-082215- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH-DURHAM NC 515 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 AT 510 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN PERSON COUNTY...NEAR THE TOWN OF WOODSDALE. THE STORMS IS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT AROUND 15 MPH AND WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF PERSON COUNTY BETWEEN 515 PM AND 600 PM. THIS STORM WILL CAUSE HEAVY DOWNPOURS...GUSTY WINDS...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ...A*ND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. ANYONE OUTDOORS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. SGY
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.