Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 86, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 44 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 11, 1995, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 1995, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 44 min
- Issued by
- NWS Raleigh, NC
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wake County, NC
The nearest sounding before it
Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 117 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 112217 RRA SVRRDU NCC183-112300- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 616 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN NORTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA ...WAKE COUNTY AT 615 PM WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WAKE COUNTY. THE LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH AND DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED WINDS IN EXCESS OF 50 MPH PRECEDING THE LINE. DOWNBURST WINDS FROM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN SOMETIMES REACH 100 MPH. A POWERFUL DOWNBURST CAN BE AS BAD AS A TORNADO. THESE WINDS DOWN TREES AND POWER LINES...OVERTURN MOBILE HOMES...AND DAMAGE BUILDINGS. SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGES PROMPTLY TO EMERGENCY OFFICIALS FOR RELAY TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
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, 4:09 PM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before
NCZ035-036-037-057-112110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 410 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF ALEXANDER...IREDELL...DAVIE AND ROWAN... AT 355 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF ALEXANDER...IREDELL... DAVIE AND ROWAN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE COUNTIES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY WITHIN OR CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES INTO THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT DELAY. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO, TV, OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES. RWN
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 4:10 PM EDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before
NCZ035-036-037-057-112110- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENSBORO NC 410 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF ALEXANDER...IREDELL...DAVIE AND ROWAN... AT 355 PM EDT WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED NO THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IN THE WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES OF ALEXANDER...IREDELL... DAVIE AND ROWAN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THESE COUNTIES. CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY WITHIN OR CLOSE TO THESE COUNTIES INTO THIS EVENING. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY WITHOUT DELAY. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL RADIO, TV, OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR WEATHER UPDATES. RWN
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 5:00 PM EDT, 1 hour 16 minutes before
NCZ006>010-023>026-039>041-074>77-083-084-112230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC 500 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING... AT 455 PM EDT...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA...EXTENDING FROM GRANVILLE COUNTY SOUTHWEST TO ANSON COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AROUND 20 MILES AN HOUR AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...VERY HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE MENTIONED AREA. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH YOUR LOCATION...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL MEDIA FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. RAN
Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:11 PM EDT, 5 minutes before
NCC001-037-063-077-085-093-101-105-125-165-183-112315- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC 611 PM EDT SUN JUN 11 1995 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF NORTH CAROLINA THIS EVENING. AT 600 PM WEATHER RADAR SHOWED WIDESPREAD THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA. STORMS STRETCHED FROM SOUTHERN VIRGINIA SOUTH THROUGH DURHAM AND WESTERN WAKE COUNTIES ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA BORDER NEAR ROCKINGHAM. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN WAKE AND WESTERN HARNETT COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO SEEK SHELTER SHOULD SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS BE REQUIRED. STAY TUNED TO LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. MLM
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, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Montgomery | 53 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.