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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 142, NWS Raleigh, NC

July 2, 1996Franklin County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 2, 1996, 5:24 PM EDT for Franklin County, North Carolina. It was in force for 36 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: Jul 2, 1996, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired: Jul 2, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Raleigh, NC
Area: Whole counties

County Franklin County, NC

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 2, 5:28 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Bunn, 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

Roanoke, VA (KRNK), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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: 90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -129 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1080 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 19 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, 5 hours 38 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.

Local storm report, Jul 2, 4:41 PM EDT, 43 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
Jul 2, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	45 min
Jul 2, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Forsyth	45 min
Jul 2, 3:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Davidson	39 min
Jul 2, 4:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Cumberland	29 min
Jul 2, 4:14 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Scotland	31 min
Jul 2, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Durham	41 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	RAH	Sampson	65 min
Jul 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Sampson	65 min
Jul 2, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Chatham	36 min
Jul 2, 5:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Wake	67 min
Jul 2, 5:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Nash	52 min
Jul 2, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	RAH	Johnston, Wilson	41 min

Nearby

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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.