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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Raleigh, NC

March 16, 1996Richmond County, North Carolina

NWS Raleigh, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 16, 1996, 8:05 PM EST for Richmond County, North Carolina. It was in force for 40 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
Mar 16, 1996, 8:05 PM EST (01:05 UTC)
Expired
Mar 16, 1996, 8:45 PM EST
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Raleigh, NC
Area
Whole counties

County Richmond County, NC

The nearest sounding before it

Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 235 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 615 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 00:00Z on 1996-03-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 244 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
615 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
244 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
308 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.6
Supercell composite
7.5

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 16, 11:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAHPerson25 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.