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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 8, 1995Franklin County, Wake County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 9:55 PM EDT for Franklin County, Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1995, 9:55 PM EDT (01:55 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1995, 10:30 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

Counties Franklin County, NC, Wake County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 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, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 090154 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC069-183-090230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
955 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1030 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...
 
IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...FRANKLIN COUNTY...WAKE COUNTY
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS DETECTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN
CENTRAL WAKE COUNTY IN THE VICINITY OF RALEIGH AND IN FRANKLIN COUNTY
FOUR MILES SOUTHWEST OF LOUISBURG. THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS WITH WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MILES AN HOUR,...
HEAVY RAINS AND POSSIBLY HAIL.
 
RESIDENTS IN AND NEAR THE WARNED AREA SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER
SITUATION OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS.

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, 4 hours 40 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, 4 hours 38 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, 2 hours 6 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.

Local storm report, Jun 8, 9:52 PM EDT, 3 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
952 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT

913 PM         PERSON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED ONE TREE DOWN...
               FIREMAN REPORTED FUNNEL CLOUD

910 PM         SKYWARN REPORTED TREES DOWN IN GUILFORD COUNTY
               NEAR BROWNES SUMMIT
940 PM         ORANGE COUNTY...SKYWARN OBSERVER DRIVING FROM CARRBORO
               TO HILLSBORO REPORTED DIME SIZE HAIL AND TREE LIMBS DOWN

840 PM         ALAMANCE COUNTY...FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTED NEAR HYWY 70
               NEAR MT HOPE CHURCH ROAD

   SGY

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, 8:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin, Vance	31 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, 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, 1995 Every 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.