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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 112, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 24, 1996Anson County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT for Anson County, North Carolina. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 24, 1996, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1996, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
33 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Anson County, NC

The radar

The Columbia radar (KCAE), 147 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 124 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 533 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC at 12:00Z on 1996-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
533 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-164 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1551 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
53 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Raleigh, NC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 24, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHMoore34 min
Jun 24, 6:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHLee45 min
Jun 24, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHRichmond, Scotland31 min
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake46 min
Jun 24, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett42 min
Jun 24, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHoke37 min
Jun 24, 7:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston38 min
Jun 24, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland35 min
Jun 24, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston30 min
Jun 24, 7:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHHarnett27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.