Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 3:37 PM EDT for Montgomery County, North Carolina. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Montgomery County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 707 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 58 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 111938 RRA SVRRDU NCC123-112030- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 337 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...MONTGOMERY COUNTY AT 335 PM EDT...NWS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM IN SOUTHWESTERN MONTGOMERY COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF MT. GILEAD. THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST ABOUT 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 THVUNDERSTORM. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. DELGADO
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 11, 11:35 AM EDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before
NCZALL-112300- NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1135 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LATE THIS MORNING A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES ACROSS WESTERN TENNESSEE TO THE WESTERN GULF STATES. VERY WARM...MOIST AIR FLOWING NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WILL HELP TO GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON... CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP FIRST IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...THEN MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS... FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY. HARTFIELD
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 11:36 AM EDT, 4 hours 1 minute before
NCZALL-112300- NORTH CAROLINA SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 1135 AM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS...PRODUCING LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. LATE THIS MORNING A COLD FRONT EXTENDED FROM THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES ACROSS WESTERN TENNESSEE TO THE WESTERN GULF STATES. VERY WARM...MOIST AIR FLOWING NORTHWARD AHEAD OF THIS FRONT WILL HELP TO GENERATE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CAROLINAS THIS AFTERNOON... CONTINUING THROUGH TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP FIRST IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA...THEN MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SECTIONS THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT. SOME OF THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. PEOPLE ACROSS NORTH CAROLINA ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A WEATHER EYE ON THE SKY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR LOCAL TV OR RADIO STATIONS... FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. SP~OTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUESTED TODAY. HARTFIELD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 8:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Person | 48 min |
| Jun 10, 9:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Orange | 34 min |
| Jun 10, 10:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Chatham | 36 min |
| Jun 11, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Wake | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Franklin | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Cumberland | 48 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.