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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 116, NWS Raleigh, NC
NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1996, 6:29 PM EDT for Wake County, North Carolina. It was in force for 46 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, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 24, 1996, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 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, 10.5 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
- 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
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
Local storm report, Jun 24, 5:01 PM EDT, 1 hour 28 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 DOWNSpecial weather statement, Jun 24, 5:08 PM EDT, 1 hour 21 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
Local storm report, Jun 24, 6:20 PM EDT, 9 minutes before
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</html>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, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RAH | Moore | 34 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, 6:33 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, 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.