Alert archive / North Carolina / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 113, NWS Raleigh, NC

June 24, 1996Moore County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT for Moore County, North Carolina. It was in force for 34 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1996, 5:56 PM EDT (21:56 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Moore County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 24, 6:02 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Carthage, NC

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Greensboro/Hi Pt, NC (KGSO), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 94 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KRDU 242158
SVRRDU
NCC125-242230-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM NC
556 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN RALEIGH/DURHAM HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN SOUTH CENTRAL NORTH CAROLINA
 
   ...EASTERN MOORE COUNTY
 
AT 550 PM...WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM EAST OF CARTHAGE
WITH ADDITIONAL STORMS BUILDING RAPIDLY NEAR LAKEVIEW AND VASS. THESE
STORMS ARE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
PEOPLE SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY ALERT FOR LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WIND.
FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN CAN POSE A2 DANGER WITH ANY
THUNDERSTORM.  SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY AND REPORT DAMAGE 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

Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH/DURHAM, NC
501 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996

TIME       .....CITY LOCATION.....   STATE    EVENT/REMARKS
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....                           ~                   435 PM     3 NW WINSTON SALEM        NC       TREES BLOWN DOWN                  6/24/96    FORSYTH                            POWER LINES DOWN

Special weather statement, Jun 24, 5:08 PM EDT, 48 minutes before

NCZ007>014-024>030-040>044-069>079-082>089-091-096-097-099-100-101-250000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
500 PM EDT MON JUN 24 1996

...THE HEAT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF THE PIEDMONT AND EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM TONIGHT...

...NORTH CAROLINA COUNTIES IN THE HEAT ADVISORY ARE:

PERSON                  GRANVILLE                 VANCE
WARREN                  HALIFAX                   NORTHAMPTON
HERTFORD                GATES                     BERTIE
MARTIN                  EDGECOMBE                 WILSON
NASH                    FRANKLIN                  WAKE
DURHAM                  ORANGE                    CHATHAM
JOHNSTON                WAYNE                     LENOIR
GREENE                  PITT                      DUPLIN

ANSON                    BLADEN                   CABARRUS
COLUMBUS                 CUMBERLAND               GASTON
HARNETT                  HOKE                     LEE
LINCOLN                  MECKLENBURG              MONTGOMERY
MOORE                    RICHMOND                 ROBESON
SAMPSON                  SCOTLAND                 STANLY
UNION                    BRUNSWICK                NEW HANOVER
PENDER

ALTHOUGH THE VERY HIGH HEAT INDICES WILL BEGIN TO FALL AS THE SUN
GOES DOWN...TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITIES WILL REMAIN QUITE HIGH
OVERNIGHT OVER THE AREAS COVERED BY THE ADVISORY. EVEN THOUGH
THE ADVISORY WILL NOT BE IN EFFECT OVERNIGHT...PEOPLE ARE ADVISED
TO TAKE IT EASY AND NOT OVER EXERT THEMSELVES TONIGHT.

IT IS VERY LIKELY THAT ANOTHER HEAT ADVISORY WILL BE REQUIRED
ON TUESDAY FOR MUCH OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA.

SWH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 4:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Anson	33 min
Jun 24, 6:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Lee	45 min
Jun 24, 6:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Richmond, Scotland	31 min
Jun 24, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	46 min
Jun 24, 6:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	42 min
Jun 24, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Hoke	37 min
Jun 24, 7:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	38 min
Jun 24, 7:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	35 min
Jun 24, 7:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston	30 min
Jun 24, 7:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Harnett	27 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in North Carolina, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.