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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 137, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 2, 1996Scotland County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT for Scotland County, North Carolina. It was in force for 31 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
Jul 2, 1996, 4:14 PM EDT (20:14 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 1996, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Scotland County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 221 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 597 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, Charleston AFB, SC at 12:00Z on 1996-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -43 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
597 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-111 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1716 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
13 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-3 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, Jul 2, 11:46 AM EDT, 4 hours 28 minutes before
NCZ001>087-089>104-030400-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH NC
1141 AM EDT TUE JUL 2 1996

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OUTLOOK...

A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS ARE
POSSIBLE OVER NORTH CAROLINA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 2, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson45 min
Jul 2, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHForsyth45 min
Jul 2, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDavidson39 min
Jul 2, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHCumberland29 min
Jul 2, 4:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHDurham41 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningRAHSampson65 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHSampson65 min
Jul 2, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHChatham36 min
Jul 2, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHWake67 min
Jul 2, 5:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHFranklin36 min
Jul 2, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHNash52 min
Jul 2, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHJohnston, Wilson41 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.