Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 8:59 PM EDT for Franklin County, Vance County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 1995, 8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Franklin County, NC, Vance County, NC
The radar
The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:02 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 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 140 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
- 2013 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1473 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KRDU 090100 RRA SVRRDU NCC069-181-090130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 859 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...FRANKLIN COUNTY VANCE COUNTY AT 9 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR HAS DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN VANCE COUNTY NEAR HENDERSON. THIS STORM IS MOVING TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE GUSTY DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR...AND POSSIBLE HAIL. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM SHOULD TAKE COVER UNTIL THIS THUNDERSTORM PASSES TO THE SOUTHEAST.
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, 3 hours 44 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, 3 hours 42 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
Special weather statement, Jun 8, 7:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 10 minutes before
NCZ022-039-021-038-090045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 749 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING TOWARD WINSTON-SALEM... AT 745 PM ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TOWARD WINSTON-SALEM IN FORSYTH COUNTY. THE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD THE SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN DAVIDSON AND SOUTHWEST GUILFORD COUNTY BY 815 PM. RESIDENTS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS WILL EXPERIENCE BRIEF HEAVY RAINS...GUSTY WINDS AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. PERSONS IN AND NEAR THE FORSYTH COUNTY AREA SHOULD BE ON THE ALERT UNTIL THESE STORMS PASS. MONITOR NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR THE LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE FURTHER STATEMENTS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 8:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 32 min |
| Jun 8, 8:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RAH | Person | 37 min |
| Jun 8, 9:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Granville | 36 min |
| Jun 8, 9:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Durham, Orange | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin, Wake | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 10:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Nash | 29 min |
| Jun 8, 10:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Johnston | 38 min |
| Jun 8, 11:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Sampson | 23 min |
| Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Davidson | 32 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.