Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 8, 1995Sampson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1995, 11:07 PM EDT for Sampson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 23 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1995, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1995, 11:30 PM EDT
In force: 23 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Sampson County, NC

The radar

The Raleigh/Durham radar (KRAX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:11 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

Newport, NC (KMHX), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 138 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: 2660 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -6 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1246 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KRDU 090307 RRA
SVRRDU
NCC163-090330-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
1107 PM EDT THU JUN 8 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1130
PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTHEAST NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...SAMPSON COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN SAMPSON COUNTY
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. NICKLE SIZE HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH THIS
STORM NEAR SPIVEYS CORNER.
 
 
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.
 
 
 
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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

Local storm report, Jun 8, 10:02 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1000 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT
 1000 PM EDT   SKYWARN REPORT...YOUNGSVILLE IN FRANKLIN COUNTY...
               QUARTER SIZE HAIL8 AND WINDS ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF
               50 MPH.
JBP

Local storm report, Jun 8, 10:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute 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 ABND TREE LIMBS DOWN

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

   SGY

Local storm report, Jun 8, 10:38 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1038 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT

UNK            CHATHAM COUNTY...TREES DOWN/UPROOTED OFF HWY 64 BETWEEN
               SILER CITY AND PITTSBORO

BEFORE 942 PM  GRANVILLE COUNTY...TREES DOWN FROM TAR RIVER SOUTH
               TREES OVER A MOBILE HOME IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COUNTY

EST 945 PM     DURHAM COUNTY ONE TREE DOWN ON HILLSBORO RD NEAR THE
               NEAR THE DURHAM-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, Jun 8, 10:59 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1038 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT

UNK            CHATHAM COUNTY...TREES DOWN/UPROOTED OFF HWY 64 BETWEEN
               SILER CITY AND PITTSBORO

BEFORE 942 PM  GRANVILLE COUNTY...TREES DOWN FROM TAR RIVER SOUTH
               TREES OVER A MOBILE HOME IN SOUTHEAST CORNER OF COUNTY

EST 945 PM     DURHAM COUNTY ONE TREE DOWN ON HILLSBORO RD NEAR THE
               NEAR THE DURHAM-ORANGE COUNTY LINE

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:05 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1105 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT

APPROX 900 PM  PERSON COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORTED GOLFBALL-SIZE
               HAIL IN MORIAH. ALSO SOME TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

1030 PM EDT    JOHNSTON COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORT TREES DOWN
               MANY LOCATIONS IN COUNTY.

900 PM EDT     VANCE COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORT TREES AND POWER
               LINES DOWN IN NORTHERN VANCE COUNTY.

HARTFIELD

Local storm report, Jun 8, 11:06 PM EDT, 1 minute before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
1105 PM EDT THU JUN 08 1995

TIME           EVENT

APPROX 900 PM  PERSON COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORTED GOLFBALL-SIZE
               HAIL IN MORIAH. ALSO SOME TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN.

1030 PM EDT    JOHNSTON COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORT TREES DOWN
               MANY LOCATIONS IN COUNTY.

900 PM EDT     VANCE COUNTY. 911 OFFICIALS REPORT TREES AND POWER
               LINES DOWN IN NORTHERN VANCE COUNTY.

HARTFIELD

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, 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 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.