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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 11, 1995Cumberland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 11, 1995, 7:12 PM EDT for Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 48 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 11, 1995, 7:12 PM EDT (23:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1995, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Cumberland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 150 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: 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

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 5:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 12 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, 1 hour 1 minute 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

Special weather statement, Jun 11, 6:30 PM EDT, 42 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:03 PM EDT, 9 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 11, 7:04 PM EDT, 8 minutes before

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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, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	44 min
Jun 11, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Franklin	46 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.